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seventeen
Determiner
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(ordinal seventeenth) Seventeen is the number that is after sixteen and before eighteen. It can also be written as 17.
Seventeen birds sit on the roof.
seventeen
Noun
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The number 17.
and ten makes seventeen.
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A set of seventeen things or persons.
The seventeen were leaving the city.
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To be seventeen years old.
In some , you may vote when you are seventeen
point
Noun
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A point is a position with no size, or a small dot.
These two lines meet at this point.
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A point is the sharp end of a knife or other sharp thing.
He used the point of the knife to make a hole in the can.
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The point of something is the reason or purpose for it.
The whole point of coming here was to plant this tree, so let's not go home without doing it.
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A point is a dot between two numbers. To the dot's right, you find a decimal.
The price has gone up by two point five percent.
point
Verb
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To point at something is to hold one finger (or a stick, arrow or other long, thin thing) in the direction of the thing so that people will look at the thing.
He pointed her toward the gate.
agreement
Noun
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An agreement is where everybody has the same feelings about something; when everyone has the same ideas; saying "yes".
We have an agreement with our teacher. If we do our homework we can go home early.
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.
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.
peaceful
Adjective
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A place or person is peaceful when there is silence or quiet. There is no noise and nothing happening suddenly.
liberation
Noun
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Liberation is the process or result of becoming free.
The country was very different after liberation from minority white rule in 1994.
Our liberation from school studies at the end of May was a relief.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
Tibet
Proper noun
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Tibet is a province of China. The capital is Lhasa.