A Degree of Murder

a Determinative

— A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type. Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".

a Noun

— A is the first letter of the alphabet. The letter "a" comes before "b". — In some schools, an A is a very high grade. Ron got an A on his earth science test.

degree Noun

— We measure an angle using degrees. All the way around a circle is 360 degrees. Often, ° is written instead of "degrees". A right-angled triangle has an angle of 90 degrees. — We measure how hot or how cold it is (temperature) using degrees on a scale, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. It's going to be 35 degrees Celsius today. — The amount that an object has of a certain quality. To what degree do the two accounts of the accident agree? — Any units used to measure specific gravity, bitterness, darkness, etc. in manufacturing commodities. — An award (usually better than a diploma but not as good as a doctorate) given by a university or, in some countries, a college After four years at university, she got her degree. — The number of edges that a vertex is part of. The corner of a cube is of degree 3, but the corners of an eight-sided solid have degree 4.

of Preposition

— Made using. It is a house of cards.

murder Noun

— Murder is when one person plans to hurt or kill somebody and they kill somebody. Police are looking into two murders at a club in Brazzaville last night. A woman who lived in 1982 was walking into the woods, and was murdered by a man, who was into the woods, also, and her body was never found, so her family just had a memorial.

murder Verb

— To kill someone on purpose. He murdered two people in the bar.