English words for 'Alternative form of whyja.'
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- Alternative form of Jaffa.
- An unincorporated community in Grainger County, Tennessee.
- A coastal suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3173).
- A former colonial town and current planning region in Harford County, Maryland.
- A small settlement in Hayle parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5636).
- A village in Massac County, Illinois.
- A hamlet in Llanrhystyd community, Ceredigion, Wales (grid ref SN5666).
- An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia.
- A hamlet near Coylton, South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (grid ref NS4019).
- An unincorporated community in Burnet County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Hendricks County, Indiana.
- A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Cullman County and Marshall County, Alabama.
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- (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason.
- (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
- (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
- (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
- a justification for something existing or happening
- any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
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- give reasons for
- be the reason or explanation for
- (transitive) To be the primary cause of
- (transitive) To be answerable for.
- (transitive) To make or render a reckoning of funds, persons, or things.
- (transitive) To constitute in amount or portion.
- (transitive) To explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed.
- (transitive) To destroy or put out of action.
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- Expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
- Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence, or effect.
- Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
- As delayed subject.
- (chiefly literary) As direct subject.
- Introducing a clause that complements an adjective or passive participle.
- Introducing a clause that is the object of a verb, especially a reporting verb or verb expressing belief, knowledge, perception, etc.
- Introducing a clause that describes the information content of a preceding reporting noun.
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- (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action, or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
- Used to refer to a noun phrase or statement just made.
- Used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
- (relative, plural that) In a relative clause, referring to a previously mentioned noun, as subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition; which, who.
- (relative, colloquial) Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
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- Having a justification.
- (typography) Of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned, with the space between words adjusted as necessary. Also called fully justified to contrast with left-justified and right-justified.
- having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins
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- (j)j: hajj→hajjes (j is only final in loan words raj, hajj)
- that end in (s)s: miss → misses, yes → yesses; bus → buses; buss → busses
- (t)ch, when pronounced as /tʃ/: glitch→glitches (but psych→psychs)
- (s)s: bus→buses, Jones → Joneses; waltz → waltzes; yes → yeses.
- sh: ash→ashes
- that end in consonant (or qu) + y: cry→cries (but buy→buys)
- that end in (t)ch pronounced as /tʃ/: impeach→impeaches (but psych→psychs)
- Used to form the regular plural of nouns that end in a consonant (or qu) + y:
- (z)z: buzz → buzzes
- that end in consonant + o in some cases: go→goes (but radio→radios)
- that end in sh: wish→wishes
- that end in (z)z: fizz→fizzes;
- Used for form the plural of some nouns that end in a consonant + o:
- (dialectal) Used to form the regular plural of nouns that end in /sp/, /st/, /sk/
- that end in x: tax → taxes; rendezvous → rendezvouses.
- x: box→boxes; crux → cruces
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- give reasons for
- be the reason or explanation for
- (transitive) To be the primary cause of
- (transitive) To be answerable for.
- (transitive) To make or render a reckoning of funds, persons, or things.
- (transitive) To constitute in amount or portion.
- (transitive) To explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed.
- (transitive) To destroy or put out of action.
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- Having a justification.
- (typography) Of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned, with the space between words adjusted as necessary. Also called fully justified to contrast with left-justified and right-justified.
- having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins