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a store or shop cashier (almost always a grocery store) (checkers) a popular board game (UK: draughts) to mark with alternating colored squares (UK: chequer) cheers (interjection) said to express gratitude, or on parting (slang). Also cheerio. used as a toast or valediction chemist pharmacist, pharmacy (US similar: druggist, drugstore)
large consumer retail establishment (as department store or superstore) consumer retail establishment of any size (UK: shop), e.g. grocery store, hardware store, convenience store, dime store; hence storefront (UK: shopfront), storekeeper (UK: shopkeeper) story an account of events, usu. fictional but sometimes factual
a store for alcoholic beverages which must be imbibed elsewhere (US liquor store) off-the-peg of clothes etc., ready-made rather than made to order (US: off-the-rack) off you/we go * a command to begin something or to start moving (US: "let's go") offal * the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. oi
[40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable in spoken language, in written language the difference shows: "Fliegen" ("flies"), being a noun, is written with a capital "F", whereas "fliegen" ("to fly"), being a verb, is not.
Also, some words only exhibit stress alternation in certain dialects of English. For a list of homographs with different pronunciations (heteronyms) see Heteronym (linguistics) . This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
List of linguistic example sentences; Polyptoton; Semantic satiation; Other linguistically complex sentences: James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher; Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (a Classical Chinese poem in which every syllable is pronounced as shi, though with varying tones).
According to The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists, the first 25 words in the OEC make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and the first 100 words make up about half of all written English. [3]
In other words, one should be in a position to understand the whole if one understands the meanings of each of the parts that make up the whole. For example, if the phrase "Fred kicked the bucket" is understood compositionally, it means that Fred has literally kicked an actual, physical bucket. The idiomatic reading, however, is non ...