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  • 1get — /get/ verb past tense got, past participle got especially BrE gotten especially AmE present participle getting RECEIVE/OBTAIN 1 RECEIVE (transitive not in passive) to be given or receive something: Sharon always seems to get loads of mail. | Why… …

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  • 2get — v. & n. v. (getting; past got; past part. got or US (and in comb.) gotten) 1 tr. come into the possession of; receive or earn (get a job; got pound200 a week; got first prize). 2 tr. fetch, obtain, procure, purchase (get my book for me; got a new …

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  • 3speed camera — noun An automatic camera installed at the side of a road to measure and record the speed of vehicles (often shortened to speed cam) • • • Main Entry: ↑speed * * * speed camera UK US noun [countable] [singular speed camera …

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  • 4speed-cubing — (SPEED kyoo.bing) n. Solving a Rubik s Cube puzzle extremely fast, usually as part of a competition. Also: speed cubing. speed cube v. speed cubist n. speed cuber n. Example Citations: The official record for the past two decades, according to… …

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  • 5Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Саундтрек) — Get Rich or Die Tryin (Саундтрек) …

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  • 6Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (Саундтрек) — Get Rich or Die Tryin (Саундтрек) …

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  • 7Speed Demon (chanson) — Speed Demon Chanson par Michael Jackson extrait de l’album Bad Sortie 31 août 1987 (album Bad) Enregistrement 1987 Durée 4 :01 Genre …

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  • 8speed — n 1 *haste, hurry, expedition, dispatch Analogous words: *celerity, legerity, alacrity: fleetness, rapidity, swiftness, quickness (see corresponding adjectives at FAST): velocity, pace, headway (see SPEED) 2 Speed, velocity, momentum, impetus,… …

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  • 9speed — [n] rate of motion, often a high rate acceleration, activity, agility, alacrity, breeze, briskness, celerity, clip, dispatch, eagerness, expedition, fleetness, gait, haste, headway, hurry, hustle, legerity, lick, liveliness, momentum, pace,… …

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  • 10speed — [spēd] n. [ME sped < OE spæd, wealth, power, success, akin to spowan, to prosper, succeed < IE base * spēi , to flourish, expand > SPACE, SPARE] 1. the act or state of moving rapidly; swiftness; quick motion 2. a) the rate of movement or …

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