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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.
wings
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noun
a means of flight or ascent
necessity lends wings to inspiration
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noun
stylized bird wings worn as an insignia by qualified pilots or air crew members
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
eagle
Noun
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A type of meat-eating bird.
He saw an eagle perched on top of that tree.
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An old gold coin in the United States worth $10.
He showed me his coin collection. He even had an old eagle.
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A score of two under par for a hole.
I got a birdy and you got an eagle on that last hole.
eagle
Verb
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If you eagle a golf hole, you score two under par on it.
I eagled the last hole with 3 strokes on a par 5.