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harassment
Noun
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Harassment refers to a crime whereby a person keeps repeatedly annoying someone else even though he/she has been told to stop.
He kept asking questions to the woman, and she got frustrated and reported him for harassment.
by
Preposition
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near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
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at some time before (the given time).
Be back by ten o'clock!
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if something is done by somebody, it is done through their action
The matter was decided by the chairman.
The boat was swamped by the water.
He was protected by his body armour.
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if something is created by somebody, they are the creator, author, etc.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare.
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shows how someone does something
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
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using the rules or logic of.
I sorted the items by category.
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with a change of. In this case, by shows how much something has changed.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
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shows how slowly, or how quickly, someone does something (used in the form "X by X" or "by Xs")
We went through the book page by page.
We crawled forward by inches.
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If you multiply mathx/math by mathy/math, you multiply mathx/math × mathy/math.
Five multiplied by seven is 35.
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If you divide mathx/math by mathy/math, you find how many mathy/maths are in mathx/math.
35 divided by seven is five.
low
Adjective
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If cost, value, amount, sound, temperature, etc. is low, it is small.
My pay is very low, so it's hard to live here.
Poor people need low-cost apartments.
The temperature will go down over night and tomorrow it will be lower than it was today.
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If something is low, it (or its top) is close to the ground.
The bridge is too low for the truck to go under it.
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If something is low quality, it is bad.
I bought a low-quality bag and it already has a hole in it.
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If a sound is low, it is small in frequency or quiet.
On the piano, the left hand plays the low notes and the right hand plays the high notes.
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If a person is feeling low, they are not happy.
level
Adjective
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Even, flat, straight, smooth, horizontal. Having all parts equally as high as all other parts.
This table is not level: things are rolling off it.
level
Noun
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A level is a place that is higher or lower than some other places.
The room you want is on the third level of this building.
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A tool for finding out whether a surface is level.
employee
Noun
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An employee is someone who works for a company or another person.
He is an employee of this store.
I was declared "employee of the month" by my boss.
I was at lunch with my fellow employees.