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overall
Adjective
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An overall effect, strategy, picture, etc., is one that covers everything but may not go into detail.
The play has many Christian elements, but the overall effect is not necessarily Christian.
overall
Adverb
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If you look at something overall, you look at the whole of it.
Despite losing a few games, the team achieved greater successes overall than in previous years.
Overall the book works well.
Fewer people came out locally, but there was an overall greater response at a national level.
overall
Noun
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An overall is a large, loose protective coat.
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Overalls are pants with a front that comes up to your chest and straps over your shoulders.
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Overalls are a loose protective trouser and shirt in one.
mass
Noun
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A measure of how much material is in something.
The Earth has much more mass than the moon.
The spacesuit weighed 75 pounds on Earth but here in outer space it weighed nothing, although its mass was exactly the same.
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Much material.
A mass of dirty branches stopped the river.
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A Christian ceremony in memory of .
He goes to mass every Sunday.
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A crowd of people.
A mass of protesters gathered at city hall.
transfer
Verb
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If you transfer (something), you move (it) to a different place.
After he became the top salesman he was transferred to the head office.
If you learn to be organized in the classroom, then you can transfer that skill to your career later on.
We dug up the tree and transferred it to the front of the house.
transfer
Noun
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A transfer is the act of transferring something from one form to another.
International trades involve the transfer of currency from one country to another.
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A transfer is the act of moving something from one location to another.
You will get a transfer at the third stop.
coefficient
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noun
a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic