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  2. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are quantifiers.

  3. Land lot - Wikipedia

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    When the boundaries of a lot are not indicated on the lot, a survey of the lot can be made to determine where the boundaries are according to the lot descriptions or plat diagrams. Formal surveys are done by qualified surveyors, who can make a diagram or map of the lot showing boundaries, dimensions, and the locations of any structures such as ...

  4. List of English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    The following are single-word prepositions that take clauses as complements. Prepositions marked with an asterisk in this section can only take non-finite clauses as complements. Note that dictionaries and grammars informed by concepts from traditional grammar may categorize these conjunctive prepositions as subordinating conjunctions.

  5. Lot - Wikipedia

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    The Lot, a short-lived AMC series; The Lot (cinema), an American movie theater chain; Backlot, in movie production The Lot, or Samuel Goldwyn Studio, Hollywood, California, US; Legends of Tomorrow, a science fiction series; Lot Lohr , a character in the Dutch television show Sesamstraat (Sesame Street)

  6. Glossary of card game terms - Wikipedia

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    draw lots To select e.g. the first dealer by letting players choose a card at random from the fanned pack or by cutting the pack draw pile The stock or talon when it is specifically used for drawing cards during play. dress. To set up the layout required before play e.g. to set up the 4 cards in Newmarket and place stakes on them

  7. LOL - Wikipedia

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    mdr: Esperanto version, from the initials of multe da ridoj, which translates to "lot of laughs" in English. mdr : French version, from the initials of "mort de rire" which roughly translated means "died of laughter", although many French people also use LOL instead as it is the most widely used on the internet.

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  9. Formalism (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Rudolph Carnap defined the meaning of the adjective formal in 1934 as follows: "A theory, a rule, a definition, or the like is to be called formal when no reference is made in it either to the meaning of the symbols (for example, the words) or to the sense of the expressions (e.g. the sentences), but simply and solely to the kinds and order of the symbols from which the expressions are ...