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a
Determinative
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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
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A is the first letter of the alphabet.
The letter "a" comes before "b".
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In some schools, an A is a very high grade.
Ron got an A on his earth science test.
ignore
Verb
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If you ignore someone or something, you don't listen to, look at, or pay attention to them.
He says he should be paid for fixing it, but he's ignoring the fact that it wasn't broken.
b
Noun
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B is the second letter of the alphabet.
"b" comes after "a" but before "c"
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In some schools, a B is a fairly high grade.
Charles got a B in his maths test.
negative
Adjective
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If something is negative, it is harmful, sad, or otherwise not good.
You can believe or not believe, that there's a positive and negative side to everything.
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If a word, sentence, answer, etc. is negative, it uses a word like no, not, never, etc.
Can't is the negative form of can.
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If someone is a negative person or has a negative attitude, they mainly think about bad things.
Her negative attitudes were the result of a hard life.
We were all depressed by his negative comments.
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If a test result is negative, the test did not find what it was testing for.
There's nothing to worry about. The HIV test is negative.
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A negative electrical charge is one carried by an electron.
Attach the wire to the negative pole of the battery.
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A negative number or value is less than zero.
A positive number multiplied by a negative number results in a negative.
The Celsius scale of temperature is not absolute since negative values are possible.
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A negative symptom is one where something is missing. Usually this is for schizophrenia.
His negative symptoms included not speaking and not showing emotion.
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Based on something not being there, not being true, or being reversed, in some other way.
I tie-bleached my shirt to make a negative image, then tie-dyed it to add a positive image.
There were negative rules, telling us what not to do, as well as positive ones telling us what to do.
negative
Noun
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A negative is a photographic image with reversed colours (e.g., black instead of white).
Prints are then made from the negatives, and in the case of the B&W I may either tint or tone the final print.
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A negative is a word, sentence, answer, etc. that means no.
When I asked if we could go next week, the answer was a negative.
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A negative is something that is harmful, sad, or otherwise not good.
Right now in Korea there is a negative connected with anything Japanese.
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A negative is a test result that did not find what it was testing for.
In out test group there were 20 negatives and only one positive.
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A negative is a small picture with the colors inverted. Negatives are made on film, then photographs are made from the negatives.
We saved the negatives and used to make more pictures later.
gate
Noun
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A gate is like a door in a fence. It opens to let people go through the fence.
Please open the gate for me; my hands are full.
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In computers and logic, a gate is something that gives a simple yes-or-no answer from two (or one, or more than two) yes-or-no things coming into it.
We need one more "and"-gate here so that it will give the finished answer.