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write
/ɹaɪt/
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To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.
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write
/ɹaɪt/
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To send written information to.
(UK) Please write to me when you get there.
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write
/ɹaɪt/
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To show (information, etc) in written form.
The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.
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write
/ɹaɪt/
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To be an author.
I write for a living.
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write
/ɹaɪt/
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(with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.
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write
/ɹaɪt/
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(of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.
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write
/ɹaɪt/
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To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
truth written on the heart
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write
/ɹaɪt/
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To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
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write
/ɹaɪt/
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To sell (an option or other derivative).
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speak
/spiːk/
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A low class bar, a speakeasy.
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speak
/spiːk/
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Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
Corporate speak; IT speak.
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speak
/spiːk/
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Speech, conversation.
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speak
/spiːk/
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To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
I was so surprised I couldn't speak.
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speak
/spiːk/
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To have a conversation.
It's been ages since we've spoken.
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speak
/spiːk/
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(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
Actions speak louder than words.
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speak
/spiːk/
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To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
This evening I shall speak on the topic of correct English usage.
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speak
/spiːk/
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To be able to communicate in a language.
He speaks Mandarin fluently.
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speak
/spiːk/
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To utter.
I was so surprised that I couldn't speak a word.
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speak
/spiːk/
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To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
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speak
/spiːk/
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(sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
So you can program in C. But do you speak C++?
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speak
/spiːk/
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To produce a sound; to sound.
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speak
/spiːk/
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Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
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speak
/spiːk/
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To address; to accost; to speak to.
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listen
/ˈlɪs.ən/
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An instance of listening.
Give the motor a listen and tell me if it sounds off.
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listen
/ˈlɪs.ən/
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To pay attention to a sound or speech.
Please listen carefully as I explain.  I like to listen to music.
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listen
/ˈlɪs.ən/
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To expect or wait for a sound, such as a signal.
You should listen for the starting gun.
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listen
/ˈlɪs.ən/
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To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent.
Listen, the only reason I yelled at you was because I was upset, OK?  Good children listen to their parents.
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listen
/ˈlɪs.ən/
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To hear (something or someone), to pay attention to.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
space travel
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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(in the plural) A series of journeys.
I’m off on my travels around France again.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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(in the plural) An account of one's travels.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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Labour; parturition; travail.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
Soundwaves can travel through water.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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To travel throughout (a place).
I’ve travelled the world.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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To force to journey.
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travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
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To labour; to travail.
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money
/ˈmʌni/
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A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
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money
/ˈmʌni/
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A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
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money
/ˈmʌni/
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A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
money supply;  money market
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money
/ˈmʌni/
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Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
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money
/ˈmʌni/
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The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
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money
/ˈmʌni/
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Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth
He married money.
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money
/ˈmʌni/
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An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
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money
/ˈmʌni/
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A person who funds an operation.
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city
/sɪtɪ/
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A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
São Paulo is the largest city in South America.
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city
/sɪtɪ/
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A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
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city
/sɪtɪ/
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The central business district; downtown.
I'm going into the city today to do some shopping.
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city
/sɪtɪ/
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A large amount of something (used after the noun).
It's video game city in here!
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country
/ˈkɐntɹi/
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(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
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country
/ˈkɐntɹi/
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A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
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country
/ˈkɐntɹi/
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The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.
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country
/ˈkɐntɹi/
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(usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
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country
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The rock through which a vein runs.
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country
/ˈkɐntɹi/
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The female genitalia, especially the vagina.
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country
/ˈkɐntɹi/
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From or in the countryside or connected with it.
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country
/ˈkɐntɹi/
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Of or connected to country music.
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country
/ˈkɐntɹi/
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A style of popular music that originated in the folk music of the rural population of the southern and western United States and characterized by string-band instruments and simple melodies.
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weather
/ˈwɛðə/
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The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
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weather
/ˈwɛðə/
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Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
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weather
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The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
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weather
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A situation.
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weather
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A storm; a tempest.
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weather
/ˈwɛðə/
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A light shower of rain.
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weather
/ˈwɛðə/
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To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
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weather
/ˈwɛðə/
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(by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
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weather
/ˈwɛðə/
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To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
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weather
/ˈwɛðə/
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To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
to weather a cape; to weather another ship
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weather
/ˈwɛðə/
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To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
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weather
/ˈwɛðə/
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To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
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weather
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Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.
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sun
/sʌn/
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A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
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sun
/sʌn/
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The light and warmth which is received from the sun.
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sun
/sʌn/
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Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
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sun
/sʌn/
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Sunrise or sunset.
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sun
/sʌn/
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The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
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sun
/sʌn/
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The thirty-first Lenormand card.
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sun
/sʌn/
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To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.
Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
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sun
/sʌn/
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To warm or dry in the sunshine.
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sun
/sʌn/
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To be exposed to the sun.
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sun
/sʌn/
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To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
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sun
/sʌn/
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The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.
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sun
/sʌn/
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A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
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sun
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Crotalaria juncea, an East Indian leguminous plant yielding a fiber.
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rain
/ɹeɪn/
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Condensed water falling from a cloud.
The rains came late that year.
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rain
/ɹeɪn/
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Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
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rain
/ɹeɪn/
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An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
A rain of mortar fire fell on our trenches.
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rain
/ɹeɪn/
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To have rain fall from the sky.
It will rain today.
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rain
/ɹeɪn/
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To fall as or like rain.
Bombs rained from the sky.
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rain
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To issue (something) in large quantities.
The boxer rained punches on his opponent's head.
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rain
/ɹeɪn/
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To reign.
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snow
/snəʊ/
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The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
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snow
/snəʊ/
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Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
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snow
/snəʊ/
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A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
We have had several heavy snows this year.
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snow
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A shade of the color white.
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snow
/snəʊ/
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The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
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snow
/snəʊ/
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Cocaine.
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