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ticket
Noun
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A ticket is a piece of paper that allows you to enter a train, airplane, show, etc.
I bought my ticket to Mexico last week, but now I can't find it.
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A ticket is a piece of paper that shows that you have parked your car in the wrong place or committed some other driving offence.
The policeman gave me a ticket for going 125 km/h.
ticket
Verb
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If you ticket someone, then you give someone a ticket for breaking a law.
The officer ticketed the driver after he drove through a red light.
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.
two
Determiner
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The number 2. Two means more than one and less than three.
We have two eyes and two ears.
two
Noun
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The number 2.
One and one is two.
adult
Noun
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An adult is a person who is of the legal age of majority.
At age 18 years, he became an adult, so he could move out without his parents' consent.
Adult usually means a person who is either age 18 years or older.
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An adult is a human who is mentally and sexually mature.
The Harry Potter series was read mostly by young adults.
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An adult is a sexually mature nonhuman animal.
Adult female cows feed milk to their offspring.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
one
Determinative
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(ordinal first) The number 1.
We have one nose and one mouth.
one
Noun
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The number 1.
One is the smallest whole number.
one
Pronoun
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One is a singular pronoun which means "someone" or "people". It is used more often in formal writing.
It is easy to see the difference if one looks closely enough.
child
Noun
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A child is a young person, usually older than a baby but younger than a teenager.
The children were playing in the park.
Most three-year-old children speak very well.
Even as a child of six, I knew what hard work was.
Taking care of young children is difficult work.
This kind of teaching is useful for all children, not just those children with learning disabilities.
We need to do a better job of educating our children.
We're collecting food for needy children.
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A child is the son or daughter of someone.
I am my mother's child in every way.
My eldest child is now a doctor.
I drove a motorcycle until my children were born.
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A child of a particular time, situation, or idea is a person who is strongly influenced by it.
As a child of the 90s, I grew up with computers.
There isn't actually that much anger among children of divorce.
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A child is the product or result of something.
This book is the child of an earlier generation of grammatical theory.
Anthropology is the child of Western colonialism.
The very idea of a garden is the child of water.
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If a woman is with child, she is pregnant.
She told no one about the sex, even when she realized she was with child.
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A child in a tree structure is piece of data, process or object with a role or position closer to the root.
please
Interjection
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We say "please" when we want to ask someone politely to do something.
Pass the salt, please.
please
Verb
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Someone pleases someone else when they do what that person likes or wants.
Giving her these flowers will please her.