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house        
  1      house   houses
     A house is a building in which people live, usually the people belonging to one family.
        She has moved to a small house and is living off her meagre savings.
        ...her parents' house in Warwickshire.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      house
     You can refer to all the people who live together in a house as the house.
        If he set his alarm clock for midnight, it would wake the whole house.
        So I grew up with that feeling that the man is the head of the house.
     N-SING: usu the N
     = household
  3      house   houses
     House is used in the names of types of places where people go to eat and drink.
        ...a steak house.
        ...an old Salzburg coffee house.
     N-COUNT: n N
     
  4      house   houses
     House is used in the names of types of companies, especially ones which publish books, lend money, or design clothes.
        Many of the clothes come from the world's top fashion houses.
        Eventually she was fired from her job at a publishing house.
     N-COUNT: n N
     
  5      house
     House is sometimes used in the names of office buildings and large private homes or expensive houses. (mainly BRIT)
        I was to go to the very top floor of Bush House in Aldwych.
        ...Harewood House near Leeds.
     N-IN-NAMES: n N
     
  6      house   houses
     You can refer to the two main bodies of Britain's parliament and the United States of America's legislature as the House or a House.
        Some members of the House and Senate worked all day yesterday.
        The Republicans have majorities in both Houses.
     N-COUNT
     
  7      house
     You can refer to all the people at a debate as the house. (BRIT, FORMAL)
        The club is planning a public debate on `This house believes that journalism has not gained from the introduction of new technology'.
     N-SING: the/this N
     
  8      house   houses
     In a British school, a house is a group of children of different ages who compete against other groups in sports and other activities. Each house usually has a name.
        He was a prefect and house captain.
     N-COUNT
     
  9      house   houses
     A house is a family which has been or will be important for many generations, especially the family of a king or queen.
        ...the Saudi Royal House.
        ...the House of Windsor.
     N-COUNT: with supp
     
  10      house   houses
     The house is the part of a theatre, cinema, or other place of entertainment where the audience sits. You can also refer to the audience at a particular performance as the house.
        They played in front of a packed house.
     N-COUNT
     
  11      house
     A restaurant's house wine is the cheapest wine it sells, which is not listed by name on the wine list.
        Tweed ordered a carafe of the house wine.
        ...a bottle of house red or white.
     ADJ: ADJ n
     
  12      house   houses   housing   housed
     To house someone means to provide a house or flat for them to live in.
        Part III of the Housing Act 1985 imposes duties on local authorities to house homeless people.
        Regrettably we have to house families in these inadequate flats.
     VB
     
  13      house   houses   housed
     A building or container that houses something is the place where it is located or from where it operates.
        The chateau itself is open to the public and houses a museum of motorcycles and cars.
        Many years later, the temple erected in her name was used to house the Roman mint.
     VB: no cont
     
  14      house   houses   housed
     If you say that a building houses a number of people, you mean that is the place where they live or where they are staying.
        The building will house twelve boys and eight girls.
        Their villas housed army officers now.
     VB: no cont
     = accommodate
  15      house
     If a person or their performance or speech brings the house down, the audience claps, laughs, or shouts loudly because the performance or speech is very impressive or amusing. (INFORMAL)
        It's really an amazing dance. It just always brings the house down.
     PHR: V inflects
     
  16      house
     If two people get on like a house on fire, they quickly become close friends, for example because they have many interests in common. (INFORMAL)
     PHR: V inflects
     = hit it off
  17      house
     If you keep house, you do the cleaning and cooking for your household, and do not go out to work.
        He lives with an aunt who keeps house for him.
     PHR: V inflects, oft PHR for n
     
  18      house
     If you are given something in a restaurant or bar on the house, you do not have to pay for it.
        The owner knew about the engagement and brought them glasses of champagne on the house.
     PHR: v-link PHR, PHR after v
     
  19      house
     If someone gets their house in order, puts their house in order, or sets their house in order, they arrange their affairs and solve their problems.
        He's got his house in order and made some tremendous decisions.
        The challenge for American leadership is this: Can we put our economic house in order?.
        Before you lecture me, Mr Abbey, I suggest you set your house in order.
     PHR: V inflects
     
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movie        
  1      movie   movies
     A movie is a film. (AM; ALSO BRIT, INFORMAL)
        In the first movie Tony Curtis ever made he played a grocery clerk.
        ...a horror movie.
     N-COUNT
     = film
  2      movie   movies
     You can talk about the movies when you are talking about seeing a movie in a movie theater. (mainly AM; in BRIT usually use the cinema)
        He took her to the movies.
     N-PLURAL: the N
     
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plan        
  1      plan   plans
     A plan is a method of achieving something that you have worked out in detail beforehand.
        The three leaders had worked out a peace plan.
        The project is part of a United Nations plan for refugees.
        ...a detailed plan of action for restructuring the group...
        He maintains that everything is going according to plan.
     N-COUNT: usu with supp, also according to N
     = strategy
  2      plan   plans   planning   planned
     If you plan what you are going to do, you decide in detail what you are going to do, and you intend to do it.
        If you plan what you're going to eat, you reduce your chances of overeating.
        He planned to leave Baghdad on Monday.
        It would be difficult for schools to plan for the future.
        I had been planning a trip to the West Coast.
        A planned demonstration in the capital later today has been called off by its organisers.
     VB
     
  3      plan   plans
     If you have plans, you are intending to do a particular thing.
        `I'm sorry,' she said. `I have plans for tonight.'.
        The Bonn government is making plans to evacuate more than two hundred of its citizens from the troubled area.
     N-PLURAL: usu with supp, oft N for n/-ing, N to-inf
     = arrangements
  4      plan   plans   planning   planned
     When you plan something that you are going to make, build, or create, you decide what the main parts of it will be and do a drawing of how it should be made.
        It is no use trying to plan an 18-hole golf course on a 120-acre site if you have to ruin the environment to do it.
     VB
     = design, think out
  5      plan   plans
     A plan of something that is going to be built or made is a detailed diagram or drawing of it.
        ...when you have drawn a plan of the garden.
     N-COUNT: oft N of/for n
     
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tonight        
       tonight
     Tonight is used to refer to the evening of today or the night that follows today.
        I'm at home tonight.
        Tonight, I think he proved to everybody what a great player he was.
        There they will stay until 11 o'clock tonight.
     ADV: ADV with cl, n ADV
     
  +      tonight
     Also a noun.
        Tonight is the opening night of the opera.
        ...tonight's flight to London.
     N-UNCOUNT
     
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TV        
       TV   TVs
     TV means the same as television.
        The TV was on.
        I prefer going to the cinema to watching TV.
        ...a TV commercial.
     N-VAR
     
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television        
  1      television   televisions
     A television or television set is a piece of electrical equipment consisting of a box with a glass screen on it on which you can watch programmes with pictures and sounds.
        She turned the television on and flicked around between news programmes.
     N-COUNT
     = TV, telly
  2      television
     Television is the system of sending pictures and sounds by electrical signals over a distance so that people can receive them on a television in their home.
        Toy manufacturers began promoting some of their products on television.
        Television is increasingly being transmitted by satellites.
     N-UNCOUNT
     = TV
  3      television
     Television refers to all the programmes that you can watch.
        I don't have much time to watch very much television.
     N-UNCOUNT
     = TV
  4      television
     Television is the business or industry concerned with making programmes and broadcasting them on television.
        British commercial television has been steadily losing its lead as the most advanced sector of the industry in Europe.
     N-UNCOUNT
     
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VCR

VCR        
       VCR   VCRs
     A VCR is a machine that can be used to record television programmes or films onto videotapes, so that people can play them back and watch them later on a television set. VCR is an abbreviation for `video cassette recorder'.
     N-COUNT
     = video
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videotape        
  1      videotape
     Videotape is magnetic tape that is used to record moving pictures and sounds to be shown on television.
     N-UNCOUNT also video tape.
     
  2      videotape   videotapes
     A videotape is the same as a video cassette.
     N-COUNT also video tape.
     
  3      videotape   videotapes   videotaping   videotaped
     If you videotape a television programme or event, you record it on tape using a video recorder or video camera, so that you can watch it later.
        She videotaped the entire trip.
     VB also video tape.
     = video
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watch 1 looking and paying attention        
  1      watch   watches   watching   watched
     If you watch someone or something, you look at them, usually for a period of time, and pay attention to what is happening.
        The man was standing in his doorway watching him.
        He watched the barman prepare the beer he had ordered.
        Chris watched him sipping his brandy.
        I watched as Amy ate a few nuts.
     VB
     = observe
  2      watch   watches   watching   watched
     If you watch something on television or an event such as a sports match, you spend time looking at it, especially when you see it from the beginning to the end.
        I'd stayed up late to watch the film.
        They spent a great deal of time watching television.
     VB
     
  3      watch   watches   watching   watched
     If you watch a situation or event, you pay attention to it or you are aware of it, but you do not influence it.
        Human rights groups have been closely watching the case.
        Annoyed commuters could only watch as the departure time ticked by.
     VB
     = observe
  4      watch   watches   watching   watched
     If you watch people, especially children or animals, you are responsible for them, and make sure that they are not in danger.
        Parents can't be expected to watch their children 24 hours a day.
     VB
     = watch over
  5      watch   watches   watching   watched
     If you watch someone, you follow them secretly or spy on them.
        Ella was scared that someone was watching her.
        I always had the feeling we were being watched.
     VB
     
  6      watch   watches   watching   watched
     If you tell someone to watch a particular person or thing, you are warning them to be careful that the person or thing does not get out of control or do something unpleasant.
        You really ought to watch these quiet types.
        If you're watching the calories, don't have mayonnaise.
     VB
     = keep an eye on
  7      watch   watches
     A watch is a period of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that you can warn them of danger or an attack.
        I had the first watch that May evening.
     N-COUNT
     
  8      watch
     If someone keeps watch, they look and listen all the time, while other people are asleep or doing something else, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
        Jose, as usual, had climbed a tree to keep watch.
     PHR: V inflects
     
  9      watch
     If you keep watch on events or a situation, you pay attention to what is happening, so that you can take action at the right moment.
        US officials have been keeping close watch on the situation.
     PHR: V inflects, usu PHR on n
     
  10      watch
     You say `watch it' in order to warn someone to be careful, especially when you want to threaten them about what will happen if they are not careful.
        `Now watch it, Patsy,' the Sergeant told her.
     PHR
     
  11      watch
     If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
        Apart from two men on watch in the engine-room, everyone was asleep.
     PHR: v-link PHR, PHR after v
     
  12      watch
     If you are on the watch for something, you are expecting it to happen and you therefore pay attention to events so that you will notice it when it does happen.
        Environmentalists will be on the watch for damage to wildlife.
     PHR: v-link PHR, oft PHR for n
     = on the lookout
  13      watch
     If someone is being kept under watch, they are being guarded or observed all the time.
     PHR: PHR after v, v-link PHR
     
  14      watch
     You say to someone `you watch' or `just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
        You watch. Things will get worse before they get better.
     PHR
     
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want        
  1      want   wants   wanted
     If you want something, you feel a desire or a need for it.
        I want a drink.
        Ian knows exactly what he wants in life and is determined to get it.
        People wanted to know who this talented designer was.
        They began to want their father to be the same as other daddies.
        They didn't want people staring at them as they sat on the lawn, so they put up high walls.
        He wanted his power recognised.
        I want my car this colour.
        I want my boy alive. I don't want him to be just a painful memory.
     VB: no cont, no passive
     
  2      want   wants   wanted
     You can say that you want to say something to indicate that you are about to say it.
        I want to say how really delighted I am that you're having a baby.
        Look, I wanted to apologize for today. I think I was a little hard on you.
     VB: no cont, no passive
     
  3      want   wants   wanted
     You use want in questions as a way of making an offer or inviting someone to do something.
        Do you want another cup of coffee?.
        Do you want to leave your bike here?
     VB: no cont, no passive
     
  4      want   wants   wanted
     If you say to someone that you want something, or ask them if they want to do it, you are firmly telling them what you want or what you want them to do.
        I want an explanation from you, Jeremy.
        If you have a problem with that, I want you to tell me right now.
        Do you want to tell me what all this is about?.
        I want my money back!
     VB: no cont, no passive
     
  5      want   wants   wanted
     If you say that something wants doing, you think that it needs to be done. (mainly BRIT, INFORMAL)
        The windows wanted cleaning.
        Her hair wants cutting.
     VB: no cont, no passive
     = need
  6      want   wants   wanted
     If you tell someone that they want to do a particular thing, you are advising them to do it. (INFORMAL)
        You want to be very careful not to have a man like Crevecoeur for an enemy.
        You want to look where you're going, mate.
     VB: no cont, no passive
     = ought
  7      want   wants   wanting   wanted
     If someone is wanted by the police, the police are searching for them because they are thought to have committed a crime.
        They were wanted by the police.
        He has killed many in his time, and is wanted in at least three countries.
        He was wanted for the murder of a magistrate.
     VB: usu passive
     
       wanted
        He is one of the most wanted criminals in Europe.
     ADJ-GRADED: ADJ n
     
  8      want   wants   wanting   wanted
     If you want someone, you have a great desire to have sex with them.
        Come on, darling. I want you.
     VB
     
  9      want   wants   wanting   wanted
     If a child is wanted, its mother or another person loves it and is willing to look after it.
        Children should be wanted and planned.
        I want this baby very much, because it certainly will be the last.
     VB
     
  10      want   wants   wanted
     If someone wants you in a particular place or role, they desire you to be in that place or role.
        Albie wants you in his office.
        They didn't want her as attorney general.
        This is my territory. I want you out of here.
     VB: no cont
     
  11      want
     A want of something is a lack of it. (FORMAL)
        ...a want of manners and charm...
        The men were daily becoming weaker from want of rest.
     N-SING: also no det, N of n
     = lack
  12      want
     Want is the state of being extremely poor. (FORMAL)
        He said they were fighting for freedom of speech, freedom of worship, and freedom from want.
     N-UNCOUNT
     
  13      want   wants
     Your wants are the things that you want.
        She couldn't lift a spoon without a servant anticipating her wants and getting it for her.
        Supermarkets often claim that they are responding to the wants of consumers by providing packaged foods.
     N-PLURAL: usu with poss
     
  14      want
     If you do something for want of something else, you do it because the other thing is not available or not possible.
        Many of them had gone into teaching for want of anything better to do.
        There was another emotion, and for want of a better word he called it grief.
     PHR: PHR n, PHR with v
     
  15      want
     You say if you want when you are making or agreeing to an offer or suggestion in a casual way.
        Mary says you're welcome to stay the night if you want.
        `Do you want to go through it all?'n`Yeah, if you want.'
     PHR: PHR with cl
     
  16      want
     People sometimes say `I don't want to be rude', for example, or `without wanting to be rude' as a way of apologizing or warning you when they are going to say something which might upset, annoy, or worry you.
        `I don't want to appear big-headed,' explains Loubet, `but I would say there is a 95% chance of success.'.
        Without wanting to sound mean about it, these things all have to come from a budget.
     PHR: PHR inf politeness
     
  17      want
     If you say to someone `what do you want?', you are asking them in a rather rude or angry way why they have come to the place where you are or why they want to speak to you.
        `What do you want!' she whispered savagely. `Get out.'.
        `Bernie's been on the `phone.'n`What does he want?'
     PHR
     
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