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advantage
Noun
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An advantage is a condition or circumstance that favors success.
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An advantage is when someone has superiority over someone else.
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An advantage is a benefit, gain, or profit.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
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.
invention
Noun
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something that has been invented
Nowadays, we can buy new inventions as soon as they are made.
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the action of inventing something
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the ability to invent
It took quite a bit of invention to come up with the toothbrush.