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5.theatre        
  1      theatre   theatres
     A theatre is a building with a stage in it, on which plays, shows, and other performances take place.
        If we went to the theatre it was a very big event.
        I worked at the Grand Theatre.
     N-COUNT: oft in names (AM) theater
     
  2      theatre
     You can refer to work in the theatre such as acting or writing plays as the theatre.
        You can move up to work in films and the theatre.
        Very soon he took the first steps towards a career in the theatre.
     N-SING: the N (AM) theater
     
  3      theatre
     Theatre is entertainment that involves the performance of plays.
        Companies across the country are beginning to show a healthy interest in theatre for children.
     N-UNCOUNT (AM) theater
     
  4      theatre   theatres
     A theater or a movie theater is a place where people go to watch films for entertainment. (AM; in BRIT use cinema)
     N-COUNT (AM) theater
     
  5      theatre   theatres
     In a hospital, a theatre is a special room where surgeons carry out medical operations.
        She is back from theatre and her condition is comfortable.
     N-COUNT: also prep N (AM) theater
     
  6      theatre   theatres
     A theatre of war or other conflict is the area or region in which the war or conflict is happening.
        The Middle East has often been a theatre of war.
     N-COUNT: usu sing, usu N of n (AM) theater
     
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6.post 1 letters, parcels, and information        
  1      post
     The post is the public service or system by which letters and packages are collected and delivered. (mainly BRIT; in AM usually use mail)
        You'll receive your book through the post.
        The winner will be notified by post.
        The cheque is in the post.
     N-SING: the N, also by N
     = mail
  2      post
     You can use post to refer to letters and packages that are delivered to you. (mainly BRIT; in AM usually use mail)
        He flipped through the post without opening any of it.
        There has been no post in three weeks.
     N-UNCOUNT
     = mail
  3      post
     Post is used to refer to an occasion when letters or packages are delivered. For example, first post on a particular day is the first time that things are delivered. (mainly BRIT)
        Entries must arrive by first post next Wednesday.
        They just have to wait patiently for the next post.
     N-UNCOUNT: supp N
     = delivery
  4      post   posts   posting   posted
     If you post a letter or package, you send it to someone by putting it in a post box or by taking it to a post office. (mainly BRIT; in AM usually use mail)
        If I write a letter, would you post it for me?.
        I'm posting you a cheque tonight.
        I posted a letter to Stanley saying I was an old Army friend.
     VB
     = mail
  +      post off; posts off; posting off; posted off
     Post off means the same as post.
        He'd left me to pack up the mail and post it off.
        All you do is complete and post off a form.
     PHR-V
     
  5      post   posts   posting   posted
     If you post notices, signs, or other pieces of information somewhere, you fix them to a wall or board so that everyone can see them.
        Officials began posting warning notices.
        She has posted photographs on bulletin boards.
     VB
     
  +      post up; posts up; posting up; posted up
     Post up means the same as post.
        He has posted a sign up that says `No Fishing'.
        We post up a set of rules for the house.
     PHR-V
     
  6      post   posts   posting   posted
     If you post information on the Internet, you make the information available to other people on the Internet.
        A consultation paper has been posted on the Internet inviting input from Net users.
     VB
     
  7      post
     If you keep someone posted, you keep giving them the latest information about a situation that they are interested in.
        Keep me posted on your progress.
     PHR: keep inflects, oft PHR on/with n
     
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post 1 letters, parcels, and information        
  1      post
     The post is the public service or system by which letters and packages are collected and delivered. (mainly BRIT; in AM usually use mail)
        You'll receive your book through the post.
        The winner will be notified by post.
        The cheque is in the post.
     N-SING: the N, also by N
     = mail
  2      post
     You can use post to refer to letters and packages that are delivered to you. (mainly BRIT; in AM usually use mail)
        He flipped through the post without opening any of it.
        There has been no post in three weeks.
     N-UNCOUNT
     = mail
  3      post
     Post is used to refer to an occasion when letters or packages are delivered. For example, first post on a particular day is the first time that things are delivered. (mainly BRIT)
        Entries must arrive by first post next Wednesday.
        They just have to wait patiently for the next post.
     N-UNCOUNT: supp N
     = delivery
  4      post   posts   posting   posted
     If you post a letter or package, you send it to someone by putting it in a post box or by taking it to a post office. (mainly BRIT; in AM usually use mail)
        If I write a letter, would you post it for me?.
        I'm posting you a cheque tonight.
        I posted a letter to Stanley saying I was an old Army friend.
     VB
     = mail
  +      post off; posts off; posting off; posted off
     Post off means the same as post.
        He'd left me to pack up the mail and post it off.
        All you do is complete and post off a form.
     PHR-V
     
  5      post   posts   posting   posted
     If you post notices, signs, or other pieces of information somewhere, you fix them to a wall or board so that everyone can see them.
        Officials began posting warning notices.
        She has posted photographs on bulletin boards.
     VB
     
  +      post up; posts up; posting up; posted up
     Post up means the same as post.
        He has posted a sign up that says `No Fishing'.
        We post up a set of rules for the house.
     PHR-V
     
  6      post   posts   posting   posted
     If you post information on the Internet, you make the information available to other people on the Internet.
        A consultation paper has been posted on the Internet inviting input from Net users.
     VB
     
  7      post
     If you keep someone posted, you keep giving them the latest information about a situation that they are interested in.
        Keep me posted on your progress.
     PHR: keep inflects, oft PHR on/with n
     
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7.school        
  1      school   schools
     A school is a place where children are educated. You usually refer to this place as school when you are talking about the time that children spend there and the activities that they do there.
        ...a boy who was in my class at school...
        Even the good students say homework is what they most dislike about school.
        I took the kids for a picnic in the park after school.
        ...a school built in the Sixties...
        He favors extending the school day and school year.
        ...two boys wearing school uniform.
     N-VAR: usu prep N
     
  2      school   schools
     A school is the pupils or staff at a school.
        Deirdre, the whole school's going to hate you.
        ...a children's writing competition open to schools or individuals.
     N-COUNT-COLL
     
  3      school   schools
     A privately-run place where a particular skill or subject is taught can be referred to as a school.
        ...a riding school and equestrian centre near Chepstow.
        ...the Kingsley School of English.
     N-COUNT: with supp, oft in names
     
  4      school   schools
     A university, college, or university department specializing in a particular type of subject can be referred to as a school.
        ...a lecturer in the school of veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
        Stella, 21, is at art school training to be a fashion designer.
     N-VAR: with supp, oft in names
     
  5      school
     School is used to refer to university or college. (AM)
        Moving rapidly through school, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Kentucky at age 18.
     N-UNCOUNT
     
  6      school   schools
     A particular school of writers, artists, or thinkers is a group of them whose work, opinions, or theories are similar.
        ...the Chicago school of economists...
        O'Keeffe was influenced by various painters and photographers, but she was never a member of any school.
     N-COUNT-COLL: usu with supp
     
  7      school   schools
     A school of fish or dolphins is a large group of them moving through water together.
     N-COUNT-COLL: N of n
     
  8      school   schools   schooling   schooled
     If you school someone in something, you train or educate them to have a certain skill, type of behaviour, or way of thinking. (WRITTEN)
        Many mothers schooled their daughters in the myth of female inferiority.
        He is schooled to spot trouble.
     VB
     = train
  9      school   schools   schooling   schooled
     To school a child means to educate him or her. (AM; ALSO BRIT, FORMAL)
        She's been schooling her kids herself.
     VB
     = educate
       schooled
        ...a cross-cultural study with Indian children, both schooled and unschooled, and American children.
     ADJ-GRADED
     * unschooled
  10      school   schools   schooling   schooled
     If you school a horse, you train it so that it can be ridden in races or competitions.
        She bought him as a s1,000 colt of six months and schooled him.
     VB
     = train
  11      school
     If you approve of someone because they have good qualities that used to be more common in the past, you can describe them as one of the old school.
        He is one of the old school who still believes in honour in public life.
        ...an elderly gentleman of the old school.
     PHR: usu n PHR approval
     
        school of thought: see thought.
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8.between        
        In addition to the uses shown below, between is used in a few phrasal verbs, such as `come between'.
  1      between
     If something is between two things or is in between them, it has one of the things on one side of it and the other thing on the other side.
        She left the table to stand between the two men.
        Charlie crossed between the traffic to the far side of the street.
     PREP: usu PREP pl-n
     
  2      between
     If people or things travel between two places, they travel regularly from one place to the other and back again.
        I spent a lot of time in the early Eighties travelling between London and Bradford.
     PREP: PREP pl-n
     
  3      between
     A relationship, discussion, or difference between two people, groups, or things is one that involves them both or relates to them both.
        I think the relationship between patients and doctors has got a lot less personal.
        There have been intensive discussions between the two governments in recent days.
        There has always been a difference between community radio and commercial radio.
     PREP: PREP pl-n
     
  4      between
     If something stands between you and what you want, it prevents you from having it.
        His sense of duty often stood between him and the enjoyment of life.
     PREP: PREP n and n
     
  5      between
     If something is in between two amounts or ages, it is greater or older than the first one and smaller or younger than the second one.
        Increase the amount of time you spend exercising by walking between 15 and 20 minutes.
        Amsterdam is funma third of its population is aged between 18 and 30.
     PREP: PREP num and num
     
  6      between
     If something happens between or in between two times or events, it happens after the first time or event and before the second one.
        The canal was built between 1793 and 1797.
        Berlin was well known for its good living in between the two world wars.
     PREP: PREP pl-n, PREP num and num
     
  +      between
     Also an adverb.
        Henry had to endure a journey by jetfoil, coach and two aircraft, with a four-hour wait in Bangkok in between.
     ADV: ADV with cl/group
     
  7      between
     If you must choose between two or more things, you must choose just one of them.
        Students will be able to choose between English, French and Russian as their first foreign language.
     PREP: PREP pl-n
     
  8      between
     If people or places have a particular amount of something between them, this is the total amount that they have.
        The three sites employ 12,500 people between them.
        Between them, they train over fifty horses in Lambourn.
     PREP: PREP pron
     
  9      between
     When something is divided or shared between people, they each have a share of it.
        His company was bought out by Hogg Robinson for s3.5m, divided between five partners.
        There is only one bathroom shared between eight bedrooms.
     PREP: PREP pl-n
     = amongst
  10      between
     When you introduce a statement by saying `between you and me' or `between ourselves', you are indicating that you do not want anyone else to know what you are saying.
        Between you and me, though, it's been awful for business.
        Between ourselves, I know he wants to marry her.
     PHR: PHR with cl

9.corner        
  1      corner   corners
     A corner is a point or an area where two or more edges, sides, or surfaces of something join.
        He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket.
        Write `By Airmail' in the top left hand corner.
     N-COUNT: usu with supp
     
  2      corner   corners
     The corner of a room, box, or similar space is the area inside it where its edges or walls meet.
        ...a card table in the corner of the living room...
        The ball hurtled into the far corner of the net.
        Finally I spotted it, in a dark corner over by the piano.
     N-COUNT
     
  3      corner   corners
     The corner of your mouth or eye is the side of it.
        She flicked a crumb off the corner of her mouth.
        Out of the corner of her eye she saw that a car had stopped.
     N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n
     
  4      corner   corners
     The corner of a street is the place where one of its sides ends as it joins another street.
        She would spend the day hanging round street corners.
        We can't have police officers on every corner.
        He waited until the man had turned a corner.
     N-COUNT: usu with supp
     
  5      corner   corners
     A corner is a bend in a road.
        ...a sharp corner...
        The road is a succession of hairpin bends, hills, and blind corners.
     N-COUNT
     = bend
  6      corner   corners
     If you talk about the corners of the world, a country, or some other place, you are referring to places that are far away or difficult to get to. (WRITTEN)
        Buyers came from all corners of the world.
        The group has been living in a remote corner of the Cambodian jungle.
     N-COUNT: with supp, usu N of n
     
  7      corner   corners
     In soccer, hockey, and some other sports, a corner is a free shot or kick taken from the corner of the pitch.
     N-COUNT
     
  8      corner   corners   cornering   cornered
     If you corner a person or animal, you force them into a place they cannot escape from.
        A police motor-cycle chased his car twelve miles, and cornered him near Rome.
        He was still sitting huddled like a cornered animal.
     VB
     
  9      corner   corners   cornering   cornered
     If you corner someone, you force them to speak to you when they have been trying to avoid you.
        Golan managed to corner the young producer-director for an interview.
     VB
     
  10      corner   corners   cornering   cornered
     If a company or place corners an area of trade, they gain control over it so that no one else can have any success in that area.
        This restaurant has cornered the Madrid market for specialist paellas.
        Zurich's affluence came initially from cornering a sizeable chunk of the 14th Century silk trade.
     VB
     = monopolize
  11      corner   corners   cornering   cornered
     If a car, or the person driving it, corners in a particular way, the car goes round bends in roads in this way.
        Peter drove jerkily, cornering too fast and fumbling the gears.
     VB
     
  12      corner
     If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it will happen very soon. Also (BRIT) round the corner.
        The Chancellor of the Exchequer says that economic recovery is just around the corner.
     PHR: usu v-link PHR
     = imminent
  13      corner
     If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it is very near. Also (BRIT) round the corner.
        My new place is just around the corner.
     PHR: v-link PHR, PHR after v
     
  14      corner
     If you cut corners, you do something quickly by doing it in a less thorough way than you should.
        Take your time, don't cut corners and follow instructions to the letter.
     PHR: V inflects disapproval
     
  15      corner
     You can use expressions such as the four corners of the world to refer to places that are a long way from each other. (WRITTEN)
        They've combed the four corners of the world for the best accessories.
        Young people came from the four corners of the nation.
     PHR: PHR n
     
  16      corner
     If you are in a corner or in a tight corner, you are in a situation which is difficult to deal with and get out of.
        The government is in a corner on interest rates.
        He appears to have backed himself into a tight corner.
     PHR: N inflects, v-link PHR, PHR after v
     = tight spot
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10.next        
  1      next
     The next period of time, event, person, or thing is the one that comes immediately after the present one or after the previous one.
        I got up early the next morning.
        ...the next available flight...
        Who will be the next prime minister?.
        I want my next child born at home.
        Many senior citizens have very few visitors from one week to the next.
        And then Captain Charles sings, `Don't ever laugh when a hearse goes by or you will be the next to die.'
     ORD
     
  2      next
     You use next in expressions such as next Friday, next day and next year to refer, for example, to the first Friday, day, or year that comes after the present or previous one.
        Let's plan a big night next week.
        He retires next January.
        Next day the European Community summit strengthened their ultimatum.
     DET
     
  +      next
     Also an adjective.
        I shall be 26 years old on Friday next.
     ADJ: n ADJ
     
  +      next
     Also a pronoun.
        He predicted that the region's economy would grow by about six per cent both this year and next.
     PRON
     
  3      next
     The next place or person is the one that is nearest to you or that is the first one that you come to.
        Grace sighed so heavily that Trish could hear it in the next room.
        The man in the next chair was asleep.
        Stop at the next corner. I'm getting out.
     ADJ: det ADJ
     
  4      next
     The thing that happens next is the thing that happens immediately after something else.
        Next, close your eyes then screw them up tight.
        I don't know what to do next.
        The news is next.
     ADV: ADV with cl, ADV after v, be ADV
     
  5      next
     When you next do something, you do it for the first time since you last did it.
        I next saw him at his house in Berkshire.
        Maserati's engineers asked me some penetrating questions when we next met.
     ADV: ADV before v
     
  6      next
     You use next to say that something has more of a particular quality than all other things except one. For example, the thing that is next best is the one that is the best except for one other thing.
        The one thing he didn't have was a son. I think he's felt that a grandson is the next best thing.
        At least three times more daffodils are grown than in Holland, the next largest grower.
     ADV: ADV adj-superl
     = second
  7      next
     You use after next in expressions such as the week after next to refer to a period of time after the next one. For example, when it is May, the month after next is July.
        ...the party's annual conference, to be held in Bournemouth the week after next.
     PHR: n PHR
     
  8      next
     If you say that you do something or experience something as much as the next person, you mean that you are no different from anyone else in the respect mentioned.
        I enjoy pleasure as much as the next person.
        I'm as ambitious as the next man. I'd like to manage at the very highest level.
     PHR: as group PHR emphasis
     
  9      next
     You can say the next thing I knew to suggest that a new situation which you are describing was surprising because it happened very suddenly. (INFORMAL, SPOKEN)
        I had leaned over to pick up some change, and the next thing I knew I felt this terrible pain in my ankle.
     PHR: V inflects
     
  10      next
     If one thing is next to another thing, it is at the other side of it.
        She sat down next to him on the sofa.
        ...at the southern end of the Gaza Strip next to the Egyptian border...
        The car was parked in the small weedy lot next to the hotel.
     PHR-PREP
     = beside
  11      next
     You use next to in order to give the most important aspect of something when comparing it with another aspect.
        Her children were the number two priority in her life next to her career.
        Next to the expense of cashiers, pricing items is one of the costliest labor costs of grocery retailers.
     PHR-PREP
     = after
  12      next
     You use next to before a negative, or a word that suggests something negative, to mean almost, but not completely.
        Johnson still knew next to nothing about tobacco.
        Last year a Food Commission report revealed that most pre-prepared weight loss products are next to useless.
     PHR: PHR after v, v-link PHR, PHR nothing/adj
     = almost
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11.park        
  1      park   parks
     A park is a public area of land with grass and trees, usually in a town, where people go in order to relax and enjoy themselves.
        ...Regent's Park.
        ...a brisk walk with the dog around the park...
        They stopped and sat on a park bench.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      park   parks   parking   parked
     When you park a vehicle or park somewhere, you drive the vehicle into a position where it can stay for a period of time, and leave it there.
        Greenfield turned into the next side street and parked.
        He found a place to park the car.
        Ben parked across the street.
        ...rows of parked cars.
     VB
     
        See also double-park.
  3      park   parks
     You can refer to a place where a particular activity is carried out as a park.
        ...a science and technology park.
        ...a business park.
     N-COUNT: supp N
     
  4      park   parks
     A private area of grass and trees around a large country house is referred to as a park. (BRIT)
        ...a 19th century manor house in six acres of park and woodland.
     N-VAR
     
  5      park
     Some people refer to a soccer or rugby field as the park. (BRIT, JOURNALISM)
        Chris was also the best player on the park.
     N-SING: usu on the N
     
  6      park
     A park is a park or stadium where baseball is played. Park is also used in the names of some parks. (AM)
        ...a spot where professional baseball has been played in one park or another since 1896...
        The network was broadcasting the World Series from Candlestick Park when the quake struck.
     N-COUNT; also N-IN-NAMES
     
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12.picture        
  1      picture   pictures
     A picture consists of lines and shapes which are drawn, painted, or printed on a surface and show a person, thing, or scene.
        A picture of Rory O'Moore hangs in the dining room at Kildangan.
        ...drawing a small picture with coloured chalks.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      picture   pictures
     A picture is a photograph.
        The tourists have nothing to do but take pictures of each other.
        The Observer carries a big front-page picture of rioters in a litter-strewn street.
     N-COUNT
     
  3      picture   pictures
     Television pictures are the scenes which you see on a television screen.
        ...heartrending television pictures of human suffering.
     N-COUNT: usu pl
     
  4      picture   pictures   picturing   pictured
     To be pictured somewhere, for example in a newspaper or magazine, means to appear in a photograph or picture.
        The golfer is pictured on many of the front pages, kissing his trophy as he holds it aloft.
        ...a woman who claimed she had been pictured dancing with a celebrity in Stringfellows nightclub...
        The rattan and wrought-iron chair pictured here costs s125.
     VB: usu passive
     
  5      picture   pictures
     You can refer to a film as a picture.
        Warner Communications Inc. has refused to distribute the picture in the United States.
        ...a director of epic action pictures.
     N-COUNT
     = motion picture
  6      picture   pictures
     If you go to the pictures, you go to a cinema to see a film. (BRIT; in AM use the movies)
        We're going to the pictures tonight.
        I'd rather see it at the pictures than on video anyway.
     N-PLURAL: the N
     = cinema
  7      picture   pictures
     If you have a picture of something in your mind, you have a clear idea or memory of it in your mind as if you were actually seeing it.
        They have in their mind a picture of what an alcoholic should look like.
        We are just trying to get our picture of the whole afternoon straight.
        I tried to put the picture from my mind.
     N-COUNT: oft N of n
     = image
  8      picture   pictures   picturing   pictured
     If you picture something in your mind, you think of it and have such a clear memory or idea of it that you seem to be able to see it.
        He pictured her with long black braided hair.
        I never would have pictured this as her home.
        He pictured Claire sitting out in the car, waiting for him.
        She pictured herself working with animals.
        I tried to picture the place, but could not.
     VB
     = imagine
  9      picture   pictures
     A picture of something is a description of it or an indication of what it is like.
        I'll try and give you a better picture of what the boys do.
        Her book paints a bleak picture of the problems women now face.
        From the files that have now been released, a truer picture emerges.
     N-COUNT: usu sing, with supp
     
  10      picture
     When you refer to the picture in a particular place, you are referring to the situation there.
        But as with other charitable bodies, these figures mask the true picture.
        It's a similar picture across the border in Ethiopia.
     N-SING: oft the N
     = situation
  11      picture
     If you get the picture, you understand the situation, especially one which someone is describing to you.
        Luke never tells you the whole story, but you always get the picture.
     PHR: V inflects
     = get the idea
  12      picture
     If you say that someone is in the picture, you mean that they are involved in the situation that you are talking about. If you say that they are out of the picture, you mean that they are not involved in the situation.
        Meyerson is back in the picture after disappearing in July.
        Sometimes security was so tight that people who might have had something important to offer were left out of the picture.
     PHR: v-link PHR, PHR after v
     
  13      picture
     You use picture to describe what someone looks like. For example, if you say that someone is a picture of health or the picture of misery, you mean that they look extremely healthy or extremely miserable.
        We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.
     PHR: v-link PHR
     
  14      picture
     If you put someone in the picture, you tell them about a situation which they need to know about.
        Has Inspector Fayard put you in the picture?
     PHR: V inflects
     
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13.model        
  1      model   models
     A model of an object is a physical representation that shows what it looks like or how it works. The model is often smaller than the object it represents.
        ...an architect's model of a wooden house.
        ...a working scale model of the whole Bay Area...
        I made a model out of paper and glue.
     N-COUNT: oft N of n (AM) modeling, modeled
     = replica, mock-up
  +      model
     Also an adjective.
        I had made a model aeroplane.
        ...a model railway.
     ADJ: ADJ n (AM) modeling, modeled
     
  2      model   models
     A model is a system that is being used and that people might want to copy in order to achieve similar results. (FORMAL)
        We believe that this is a general model of managerial activity.
        ...the Chinese model of economic reform.
     N-COUNT: with supp (AM) modeling, modeled
     
  3      model   models
     A model of a system or process is a theoretical description that can help you understand how the system or process works, or how it might work. (TECHNICAL or FORMAL)
        Darwin eventually put forward a model of biological evolution.
        He proposed a model of stress reaction in the body.
     N-COUNT: usu with supp (AM) modeling, modeled
     
  4      model   models   modelling   modelled
     If someone such as a scientist models a system or process, they make an accurate theoretical description of it in order to understand or explain how it works. (TECHNICAL or FORMAL)
        ...the mathematics needed to model a nonlinear system like an atmosphere.
     VB (AM) modeling, modeled
     
  5      model   models
     If you say that someone or something is a model of a particular quality, you are showing approval of them because they have that quality to a large degree.
        A model of good manners, he has conquered any inward fury.
        His marriage and family life is a model of propriety.
     N-COUNT: N of n (AM) modeling, modeled approval
     
  6      model
     You use model to express approval of someone when you think that they perform their role or duties extremely well.
        As a girl she had been a model pupil.
        Hospital staff say he is a model patient.
     ADJ: ADJ n (AM) modeling, modeled approval
     = exemplary
  7      model   models   modelling   modelled
     If one thing is modelled on another, the first thing is made so that it is like the second thing in some way.
        The quota system was modelled on those operated in America and continental Europe.
        The program will be modeled after a popular BBC series called `The Archers'.
        She asked the author if she had modelled her hero on anybody in particular.
     VB (AM) modeling, modeled
     
  8      model   models   modelling   modelled
     If you model yourself on someone, you copy the way that they do things, because you admire them and want to be like them.
        There's absolutely nothing wrong in modelling yourself on an older woman.
        They will tend to model their behaviour on the teacher's behaviour.
     VB (AM) modeling, modeled
     
  9      model   models
     A particular model of a machine is a particular version of it.
        To keep the cost down, opt for a basic model.
        The model number is 1870/285.
     N-COUNT: usu supp N (AM) modeling, modeled
     = version
  10      model   models
     An artist's model is a person who stays still in a particular position so that the artist can make a picture or sculpture of them.
     N-COUNT (AM) modeling, modeled
     = sitter
  11      model   models   modelling   modelled
     If someone models for an artist, they stay still in a particular position so that the artist can make a picture or sculpture of them.
        Tullio has been modelling for Sandra for eleven years.
     VB (AM) modeling, modeled
     = pose
  12      model   models
     A fashion model is a person whose job is to display clothes by wearing them.
        ...Paris's top photographic fashion model.
     N-COUNT (AM) modeling, modeled
     
  13      model   models   modelling   modelled
     If someone models clothes, they display them by wearing them.
        I wasn't here to model clothes.
        She began modelling in Paris aged 15.
     VB (AM) modeling, modeled
     
       modelling
        She was being offered a modelling contract.
     N-UNCOUNT: oft N n
     
  14      model   models   modelling   modelled
     If you model shapes or figures, you make them out of a substance such as clay or wood.
        There she began to model in clay.
        Sometimes she carved wood and sometimes stone; sometimes she modelled clay.
        The artist recorded interviews on a variety of topics and modelled an appropriate animal for each voice.
     VB (AM) modeling, modeled
     
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romantic        
  1      romantic
     Someone who is romantic or does romantic things says and does things that make their wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend feel special and loved.
        When we're together, all he talks about is business. I wish he were more romantic.
        They enjoyed a romantic dinner for two at one of their favourite restaurants.
     ADJ-GRADED
     
       romantically
        He lived with his pretty wife Helgamhis barge was romantically called after her.
     ADV-GRADED
     
  2      romantic
     Romantic means connected with sexual love.
        ...his early romantic experiences...
        He was not interested in a romantic relationship with Ingrid.
     ADJ: ADJ n
     
       romantically
        We are not romantically involved.
     ADV
     
  3      romantic
     A romantic play, film, or story describes or represents a love affair.
        It is a lovely romantic comedy, well worth seeing.
        ...romantic novels.
     ADJ: ADJ n
     
  4      romantic
     If you say that someone has a romantic view or idea of something, you are critical of them because their view of it is unrealistic and they think that thing is better or more exciting than it really is.
        He has a romantic view of rural society.
        I don't have any romantic notions about having a baby. It's a really tough job.
     ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n disapproval
     = unrealistic
  +      romantic   romantics
     A romantic is a person who has romantic views.
        You're a hopeless romantic.
     N-COUNT
     * realist
       romantically
        They suffered from tuberculosis, then still romantically called consumption.
     ADV-GRADED
     
  5      romantic
     Something that is romantic is beautiful in a way that strongly affects your feelings.
        Seacliff House is one of the most romantic ruins in Scotland.
        ...romantic images from travel brochures.
     ADJ-GRADED
     
       romantically
        ...the romantically named, but very muddy, Cave of the Wild Horses.
     ADV-GRADED
     
  6      romantic
     Romantic means connected with the artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which was concerned with the expression of the individual's feelings and emotions.
        ...the poems and prose of the English romantic poets.
     ADJ: ADJ n
     
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