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Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To reply to or talk to someone, either online or face-to-face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)

Example: Cars 2 is the most influential film of all time. Don't @ me.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The at sign (@).

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.

Example: Caesar was at Rome;  at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine;  at Jim’s house

Definition: (indicating time) Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.

Example: at six o’clock;  at closing time;  at night.

Definition: In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).

Example: He threw the ball at me.  He shouted at her.

Definition: Denotes a price.

Example: 3 apples at 2¢ (each)   The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.

Definition: Occupied in (activity).

Example: men at work

Definition: In a state of.

Example: She is at sixes and sevens with him.  They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff.  The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.

Definition: Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.

Example: Sell at 90.  Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.  I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.

Definition: Because of.

Example: to laugh at a joke   mad at their comments

Definition: Indicates a means, method, or manner.

Definition: Holding a given speed or rate.

Example: It is growing at the rate of 3% a year.  Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.

Definition: (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.

Example: He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.

Definition: (stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.

Definition: A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.

Definition: An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Equally distant from one another at all points.

Example: The horizontal lines on my notebook paper are parallel.

Definition: Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".

Example: The two railway lines are parallel.

Definition: (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.

Definition: Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.

Example: a parallel algorithm

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.

Definition: Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).

Definition: A digression; the use of such digressions.

Definition: Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

Definition: The community attending that church; the members of the parish.

Definition: An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.

Definition: A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.

Definition: An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.