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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.
pied
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adjective
(= motley, painted, particolored, piebald)
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
a jester dressed in motley
the painted desert
a particolored dress
a piebald horse
pied daisies
piper
Noun
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A piper is a person who plays the bagpipes.
The piper played on the castle wall to signal the end of the day.
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A piper is a person who plays the pipes.
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Piper is a large family of climbing tropical plants.
A pepper vine is part of the genus Piper.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
Hamelin
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noun
(= Hameln)
a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper