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gastronomy
one's own boss
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take over
life coaching
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customer care
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be oneself
happy ending
helping
mud on one's boots
foodstyle
scrape
in attendance
dietist
go in for
livelihood
hoarding
go
personalization
pedicurism
behave
cafeteria
completory
praccy
exhibition
help oneself
ingest
take
provident
have
step forward
consume
in season
retainer
feeder
personalize
servant
take in
train
autophagia
cafeterial
sanitarist
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personal shopping
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autodidactically
party and play
meals on wheels
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noun
- An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
- Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
- A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
- A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
- An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
- A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
- An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
- Discussion of business or professional affairs.
verb
- To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
- To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
- To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
- To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
- To imprison.
verb
- take up and practice as one's own
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- do over
- take up, as of debts or payments
verb
- take up and practice as one's own
- pursue or resume
- adopt
- turn one's interest to
- take up time or space
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- occupy or take on
- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- accept
- take in, also metaphorically
- take up as if with a sponge
- return to a previous location or condition
verb
- take up and practice as one's own
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- take into one's family
- put into dramatic form
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
noun
- a means of serving
- work done by one person or group that benefits another
- an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance
- the act of public worship following prescribed rules
- a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- employment in or work for another
- a force that is a branch of the armed forces
- tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
- the act of mating by male animals
- (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him
- (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
- the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
- periodic maintenance on a car or machine
- the performance of duties by a waiter or servant
verb
noun
- a means of serving
- the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do
verb
verb
- To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].
- To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- To barely manage to achieve.
- To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
noun
- A shave.
- A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
noun
- The practice by of accumulating goods.
- A good which is hoarded.
- An anxiety disorder characterized by a compulsive need to accumulate goods and feelings of anxiety or discomfort about discarding such goods.
- A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.
- A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.
- A billboard.
verb
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
noun
- A demonstration of personal skill or feelings.
- An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
- A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
- A game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.
- A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative, a shameful exhibition or a disgusting exhibition
- A large-scale public showing of objects or products.
verb
verb
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- carry out
- require (time or space)
- take somebody somewhere
- get into one's hands, take physically
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- take into one's possession
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- receive willingly something given or offered
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- require as useful, just, or proper
- experience or feel or submit to
- make a film or photograph of something
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- conquer by force
- occupy or take on
- admit into a group or community
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- be a student of a certain subject
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- head into a specified direction
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- engage for service under a term of contract
- receive or obtain regularly
- buy, select
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- have sex with; archaic use
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- be designed to hold or take
- be capable of holding or containing
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
verb
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- have as a feature
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- have ownership or possession of
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- have a personal or business relationship with someone
- organize or be responsible for
- have left
- be confronted with
- undergo
- suffer from; be ill with
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- receive willingly something given or offered
- get something; come into possession of
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- achieve a point or goal
- cause to be born
- have sex with; archaic use
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- One who feeds, or takes in food.
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- A feeder ship.
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
- A branch line of a railway.
- That which is used to feed.
- One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
verb
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- provide with shelter
- fool or hoax
- suck or take up or in
- visit for entertainment
- call for and obtain payment of
- see or watch
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- fold up
- take up mentally
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- accept
- take in, also metaphorically
- take up as if with a sponge
- take into one's family
- make (clothes) smaller
verb
- To practice an ability.
- To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
- To improve one's fitness.
- To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
- To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
- To proceed in sequence.
- To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
noun
- A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
- A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
- A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
- A group or class of people.
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
- A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
- A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
- The tail of a bird.
- A mechanical (traditionally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
- The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
- The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
- An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
- A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
- A series of electrical pulses.
- The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
- A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
- A software release schedule.
noun
verb
- To conduct oneself, to behave.
- To trade professionally (followed by in).
- To handle, to manage, to cope.
- To be concerned with.
- To pitch.
- To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- To have dealings or business.
- To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
adj
noun
- A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- Male genitalia.
- A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- A situation, occasion, or event.
- An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
noun
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