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association
Noun
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An association is a way that two things are similar, belong together, or are connected or related.
I don't see any association between what happened to you and what happened to me.
I suspect there is an association between the weather and the number who are sick.
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An association is a group of people who have a common goal or interest.
The NBA stands for the "National Basketball Association."
I have been a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
All the teachers were at an association meeting.
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Association is the when you associate (spend time with certain people).
I'm afraid your association with those wild people will get you in trouble.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
support
Verb
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To keep something up; to be a base for something.
The four legs are supporting the table.
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To give someone food and other things the person needs.
She has money, so she can support her children.
support
Noun
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Support is something that keeps something up.
The posts in the house help support the roof.
for
Preposition
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shows that something belongs to something else, or has a specific function
This cake is for you.
This is a net for catching fish.
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For is used to show the reason for something
He was angry, for he had never been called such terrible names before.
for
Subordinator
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For introduces a clause with a subject and a to-infinitive
It's not good for you to be too relaxed.
HIV
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noun
infection by the human immunodeficiency virus
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noun
(= human immunodeficiency virus)
the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells
infected
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adjective
(= septic)
containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
a septic sore throat
a septic environment
septic sewage
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
affected
Adjective
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If mathx/math is affected by mathy/math, then mathy/math causes a change in mathx/math.
The girls are still very affected by the loss of their father.
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If something that somebody does is affected, it is not natural or not real.
The young ladies looked on with affected interest.
He spoke with a very affected accent.
child
Noun
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A child is a young person, usually older than a baby but younger than a teenager.
The children were playing in the park.
Most three-year-old children speak very well.
Even as a child of six, I knew what hard work was.
Taking care of young children is difficult work.
This kind of teaching is useful for all children, not just those children with learning disabilities.
We need to do a better job of educating our children.
We're collecting food for needy children.
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A child is the son or daughter of someone.
I am my mother's child in every way.
My eldest child is now a doctor.
I drove a motorcycle until my children were born.
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A child of a particular time, situation, or idea is a person who is strongly influenced by it.
As a child of the 90s, I grew up with computers.
There isn't actually that much anger among children of divorce.
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A child is the product or result of something.
This book is the child of an earlier generation of grammatical theory.
Anthropology is the child of Western colonialism.
The very idea of a garden is the child of water.
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If a woman is with child, she is pregnant.
She told no one about the sex, even when she realized she was with child.
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A child in a tree structure is piece of data, process or object with a role or position closer to the root.
their
Pronoun
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If something belongs to them it is their thing.
That's not their car, it's ours.
family
Noun
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A family is a group of people with a blood or marriage relation.
My parents and my two brothers are my family.
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A language family is a group of languages that is believed to have came from the same language.
The Indo-European language family is a family of languages that is spoken by 3 billion people.