Best Definition–adjective, superl. of good with better as compar. | 1. | of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students. |
| 2. | most advantageous, suitable, or desirable: the best way. |
| 3. | largest; most: the best part of a day. |
–adverb, superl. of well with better as compar. | 4. | most excellently or suitably; with most advantage or success: an opera role that best suits her voice. |
| 5. | in or to the highest degree; most fully (usually used in combination): best-suited; best-known; best-loved. |
–noun | 6. | something or someone that is best: They always demand and get the best. The best of us can make mistakes. |
| 7. | a person's finest clothing: It's important that you wear your best. |
| 8. | a person's most agreeable or desirable emotional state (often prec. by at). |
| 9. | a person's highest degree of competence, inspiration, etc. (often prec. by at). |
| 10. | the highest quality to be found in a given activity or category of things (often prec. by at): cabinetmaking at it
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| 11. | the best effort that a person, group, or thing can make: Their best fell far short of excellence. |
| 12. | a person's best wishes or kindest regards: Please give my best to your father. |
–verb (used with object) | 13. | to get the better of; defeat; beat: He easily bested his opponent in hand-to-hand combat. She bested me in the argument. |
—Idioms| 14. | all for the best, for the good as the final result; to an ultimate advantage: At the time it was hard to realize how it could be all for the best. Also, for the best. |
| 15. | as best one can, in the best way possible under the circumstances: We tried to smooth over the disagreement as best we could. |
| 16. | at best, under the most favorable circumstances: You may expect to be treated civilly, at best. |
| 17. | get or have the best of, | a. | to gain the advantage over. |
| b. | to defeat; subdue: His arthritis gets the best of him from time to time. |
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| 18. | had best, would be wisest or most reasonable to; ought to: You had best phone your mother to tell her where you are going. |
| 19. | make the best of, to cope with in the best way possible:
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| 20. | with the best, on a par with the most capable: He can play bridge with the best. |
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Cell Definition–noun | 1. | a small room, as in a convent or prison. |
| 2. | any of various small compartments or bou
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nded areas forming part of a whole. |
| 3. | a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the Communist party. |
| 4. | Biology. a usually microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic material enclosed by a semipermeable membrane and, in plants, a cell wall; the basic structural unit of all organisms. |
| 5. | Entomology. one of the areas into which the wing of an insect is divided by the veins. |
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| 8. | Also called electrolytic cell. Physical Chemistry. a device for producing electrolysis, consisting essentially of the electrolyte, its container, and the electrodes. |
| 9. | Aeronautics. the gas container of a balloon. |
| 10. | Ecclesiastical. a monastery or nunnery, usually small, dependent on a larger religious house. |
–verb (used without object) | 12. | to live in a cell: The two prisoners had celled together for three years. |
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Phone Definition–noun, verb (used with object), verb (used without object), phoned, phon·ing. |
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Plan Definition–noun | 1. | a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans. |
| 2. | a design or scheme of arrangement: an elaborate plan for seating guests. |
| 3. | a specific project or definite purpose: plans for the future. |
| 4. | Also called plan view. a drawing made to scale to represent the top view or a horizontal section of a structure or a machine, as a floor layout of a building. |
| 5. | a representation of a thing drawn on a plane, as a map or diagram: a plan of the dock area. |
| 6. | (in perspective drawing) one of several planes in front of a represented object, and perpendicular to the line between the object and the eye. |
| 7. | a formal program for specified benefits, needs, etc.: a pension plan. |
–verb (used with object) | 8. | to arrange a method or scheme beforehand for (any work, enterprise, or proceeding): to plan a new recreation center. |
| 9. | to make plans for: to plan one's vacation. |
| 10. | to draw or make a diagram or layout of, as a building. |
–verb (used without object) | 11. | to make plans: to plan ahead; to plan for one's retirement. |
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