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violation
Noun
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A violation of a rule is an act of breaking the rule: going past the limits of the rule.
The speed you were driving your car was a violation of the speed limit.
Walking into my house like that was a violation of my privacy.
The new finding seems to be in violation of our understanding of physics.
This violation of our trust cannot be forgiven.
The violation of these young girls by a man their uncle is hard to understand.
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.
law
Noun
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Laws are the official rules of a government or organisation.
We have defined crime as behaviour which breaks the criminal law.
We believe that this law is wrong and we are not prepared to obey such a law.
The Kyoto treaty became law in 2005.
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The law is the police.
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A law is something that is always true.
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Law is the study of laws.