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earth
Noun
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Some soil.
I planted some roses in this patch of earth.
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Anything made up mostly of rock, sand or soil.
Here is some earth.
There is earth in this box.
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Earth is the third planet from the sun, where we live.
The Earth is a planet.
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A planet, especially one like Earth.
He came from a different earth.
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One of the four classical elements.
Earth is dry and hot.
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One of the five Taoist elements.
Earth
Proper Noun
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The planet on which we live - the third planet of the Solar System.
The moon goes around the Earth.
fund
Noun
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A fund is an amount of money kept for a specific purpose.
GM cannot afford to keep paying into the company pension fund.
Our fund-raising campaign has a target of $100,000.
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An organisation's funds are the money that it has.
The school is raising funds to pay for the new library.
The sports centre closed because of a lack of funds.
fund
Verb
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If you fund something, you give it money for its activities.
The project is jointly funded by the Government of Canada and the International Red Cross.
The university will no longer fund research into this drug.