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client
Noun
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Your client is a person or group that uses your services or buys your products.
As lawyers, we advise our clients not to talk to the media.
Each day, our best salespeople will persuade fifteen potential clients to buy the service.
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A client is a computer that accesses most central files through a server.
All clients on the network will be updated with the newest OS over the weekend.
log
Noun
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A log is a piece of wood that is long and round that has been cut off a tree.
We need another log to make a nice big fire.
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A log is a place where people or computer programs write things when they happen, and they write the date (and maybe the time) every time they write something.
We need to keep a log of everyone going into and out of this building.
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In mathematics, a log is a logarithm.
log
Verb
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When people log a forest, they cut down the trees to make logs.
This was a forest here, but it was logged a few years ago.
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When someone logs something, they write it in a log book.
Make sure you log that so we'll remember what time it happened.
off
Preposition
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Away from somewhere or some time.
I got ready and by 7:00 I was off to school.
There's a nice restaurant just off the main road.
Bye, I'll be off now.
He was standing about 50m off.
Your birthday's only a few days off now.
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If something is off it is not on.
She took the hat off his head.
Keep your feet off the desk, please.
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Out of a vehicle such as a train, bus, etc.
As the train stopped, he jumped off and ran to her.
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If something that uses energy is off, it is not working.
It was dark in the room because the light was off.
He turned the TV off and went to bed.
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If you are off, you do not have to go to work or to school.
I work evenings, but I have my afternoons off.
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made smaller by a certain amount
They've taken 30% off the price.
We cut off a few pieces.
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If a plan, event, etc. is off, it will not happen.
Tonight's game is off because of the rain.
They've called off the meeting.
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If you're off something, you don't like or want something you wanted before.
That article really put me off meat.
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If you're off some medicine, you are not using it any more.
He's been off the pain killers for a few weeks.
off
Adjective
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If food is off, it is not good to eat anymore.
off
Verb
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If a person offs someone, they kill him or her.
I heard they offed Jimmy by drowning.
form
Noun
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Form is the shape or structure of a person or a thing.
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A thing that makes shapes to other things, as in a mold.
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Form is a blank document which is to be filled in by a person.
To join with the club, please fill in this application form.
form
Verb
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If you form something, you give it shape or structure.