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commander
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noun
(= commanding officer)
an officer in command of a military unit
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noun
someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others
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noun
a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain
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noun
(= air force officer)
an officer in the airforce
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
Indonesian
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adjective
of or relating to or characteristic of Indonesia or its people or languages
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noun
a native or inhabitant of Indonesia
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noun
the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia
task
Noun
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A task is a specific piece of work, often unpleasant.
Come here, young man. I have a task for you to do.
Telecommunications systems for hotels now perform many more tasks than just allowing people to make telephone calls.
When I was young, I had the task of milking the cows.
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If you take someone to task, you criticise them strongly.
Father took her to task for taking the car without asking.
task
Verb
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If you task someone with doing something, you give them that job.
force
Noun
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A force the act of a thing pushing on another thing, or how strongly it pushes.
The force of the hammer hitting the nail pushes the nail into the wood.
In science, energy is force times distance.
He pushed his shoulder against the door with great force, but was not able to open the locked door.
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A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
police force
force
Verb
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Someone forces something to happen when they make it happen.
He forced his way into the room.
The large size of our family forced me to buy a bigger house.
in
Preposition
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Used to show that something is inside something else.
The cat is in the box.
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Used to show that someone is at home, or is available.
Is John in?
The Doctor is now in.
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Used to show movement towards the inside.
The rain came in through the window.
east
Noun
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The east is a place that is closer to where the sun rises than another place.
My parents live in the east.
east
Preposition
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One of the four compass directions: 90º clockwise from north. The sun rises in the east.
I drove east from Chicago.
Timor
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noun
an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands