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1wild goose chase — wild goose chases also wild goose chase N COUNT: usu on N If you are on a wild goose chase, you waste a lot of time searching for something that you have little chance of finding, because you have been given incorrect information. Harry wondered… …
2kill — [[t]kɪ̱l[/t]] ♦ kills, killing, killed 1) VERB If a person, animal, or other living thing is killed, something or someone causes them to die. [be V ed] More than 1,000 people have been killed by the armed forces... [V pron refl] He had attempted… …
3Vowel length — IPA vowel length aː aˑ IPA number 503 or 504 Encoding Entity …
4egg — [[t]e̱g[/t]] ♦♦ eggs, egging, egged 1) N COUNT An egg is an oval object that is produced by a female bird and which contains a baby bird. Other animals such as reptiles and fish also lay eggs. ...a baby bird hatching from its egg. ...ant eggs. 2) …
5Chukar Partridge — This article is about a bird. For the target drone, see BQM 74 Chukar. Chukar Partridge Conservation status …
6List of French words and phrases used by English speakers — Here are some examples of French words and phrases used by English speakers. English contains many words of French origin, such as art, collage, competition, force, machine, police, publicity, role, routine, table, and many other Anglicized… …
7Regional vocabularies of American English — vary. Below is a list of lexical differences in vocabulary that are generally associated with a region. A term featured on a list may or may not be found throughout the region concerned, and may or may be not recognized by speakers outside of… …
8Satires of Juvenal — [ Frontispiece depicting Juvenal and Persius, from a volume translated by John Dryden in 1711.] The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE.Juvenal is credited… …
9down — I [[t]da͟ʊn[/t]] PREPOSITION AND ADVERB USES ♦ (Down is often used with verbs of movement, such as fall and pull , and also in phrasal verbs such as bring down and calm down .) 1) PREP To go down something such as a slope or a pipe means to go… …
10overdose — [[t]o͟ʊvə(r)doʊs[/t]] overdoses, overdosing, overdosed 1) N COUNT: usu sing If someone takes an overdose of a drug, they take more of it than is safe. Each year, one in 100 girls aged 15 19 takes an overdose... In 1970, guitarist Jimi Hendrix… …
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