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a form of political-economic corruption grass: an informant (often to the police) (to grass on) to tell on somebody (US: to squeal, narc) green ground cover marijuana grazing; to feed (livestock) with grass (UK: at grass, to put out to grass) grammar school: a type of secondary school, normally a selective state funded school
A member of a pair of opposites can generally be determined by the question What is the opposite of X ? The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a ...
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
A transitive form exists in AmE, with a different meaning: to catch somebody up means that the subject will help the object catch up, rather the opposite of the BrE transitive meaning. cater ("to provide food and service"): Intransitive in BrE, transitive or intransitive in AmE (to cater for a banquet/to cater a banquet).
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
Most English personal pronouns have five forms: the nominative and oblique case forms, the possessive case, which has both a determiner form (such as my, our) and a distinct independent form (such as mine, ours) (with two exceptions: the third person singular masculine and the third person singular neuter it, which use the same form for both ...
Here is the full setlist for Rodrigo’s opening night at Acrisure Arena: Bad Idea, Right? Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl. Vampire. Traitor. Drivers License. Teenage Dream. Pretty Isn’t Prety ...
In 2003, the second full edition was published under the title Garner's Modern American Usage, with one-third more content than the original edition. [4] A third edition was published under that title in August 2009. An updated edition covering British and other World Englishes was released in April 2016 under the title Garner's Modern English ...