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peel
Verb
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If you peel a fruit, you remove its skin.
I am going to peel this banana.
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If you peel something thin and flat off, you remove it.
After peeling off this old wallpaper, I can add new wallpaper.
peel
Noun
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Peel is the peeled skin of a fruit.
Banana peels are slippery.
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.
apple
Noun
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An apple is a sweet, red, yellow or green fruit.
I gave my teacher an apple.