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offline
Preposition
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If a system is offline, it is not connected (generally electronically) to a larger network.
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If a machine is offline, it is not powered on.
The printer is offline for a few minutes while it starts up.
address
Noun
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An address is the location where a building is or where a person lives.
address
Verb
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If you address a group, you talk in front of it.
The Prime Minister will address the United Nations.
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If you address a letter, you write an address on it.
She addressed the envelope to "Mr. John Black."
book
Noun
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A book is a lot of paper joined together with writing and pictures printed on them for you to read or write in.
I borrow books from the library, and keep them in a bookcase.
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A book is a group of stamps, matches, tickets, etc., held together inside a paper cover.
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A company's books are its money records.
An outside accountant kept the books and signed the checks until he joined the company.
book
Verb
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If you book something or someone, you reserve them for a certain time.
I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.
I can book tickets for the concert next week.
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If you book someone, you officially put their name in police records for a crime.
The police booked him for driving too fast.
generation
Noun
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A generation, is all the people or things of about the same age.
My father belonged to a generation of travellers who saw the world before there was a McDonalds on every corner.
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A generation is the average time between one when group of people were born and when their children were born, roughly 20–30 years.
During previous generations, travel was not so easy.
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A class or type of objects usually developed from an earlier type.
A new generation of personal computers is about to hit the stores.
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Generation is the creation of something, often electricity.
The increase in new power generation has not kept up with demand for electricity.