Englishfor English speakers
abuse
Noun
—
Abuse is touching or acting towards someone in a way that will likely hurt them.
The girls suffered terrible physical and sexual abuse from their father.
abuse
Verb
—
If you abuse something, you misuse it; you use something improperly.
—
If you abuse something, you injure it; you hurt it; you treat it with cruelty or damage it.
—
If you abuse somebody, you rape them; you assault them.
—
If you abuse somebody, you berate them; you insult or revile them.
Child abuse is prohibited in America.
of
Preposition
—
Made using.
It is a house of cards.
the
Determiner
—
Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
—
Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
—
Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
—
Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
translation
Noun
—
Translation is the process of changing words of sentences from one language to another.
—
A translation is a change of words, sentences, or texts from one language to another language.