How Definition–adverb | 1. | in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen? | | 2. | to what extent, degree, etc.?: How damaged is the car? | | 3. | in what state or condition?: How are you? | | 4. | for what reason; why?: How can you talk such nonsense? | | 5. | to what effect; with what meaning?: How is one to interpret his action? | | 6. | what?: How do you mean? If they don't have vanilla, how about chocolate? | | 7. | (used as an intensifier): How seldom I go there! | | 8. | by what title or name?: How does one address the president? | | 9. | at what price: How are the new cars going, cheaper than last year's models? | | 10. | by what amount or in what measure or quantity?: How do you sell these tomatoes? | | 11. | in what form or shape?: How does the demon appear in the first act of the opera? How does the medication come? | –conjunction | 12. | the manner or way in which: He couldn't figure out how to solve the problem. | | 13. | about the manner, condition, or way in which: I don't care how you leave your desk when you go. Be careful how you act. | | 14. | in whatever manner or way; however: You can travel how you please. | | 15. | Informal. that: He told us how he was honest and could be trusted. | –noun | 16. | a question concerning the way or manner in which something is done, achieved, etc.: a child's unending whys and hows. | | 17. | a way or manner of doing something: to consider all the hows and wherefores. | | 18. | a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter H. |
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—Idioms | 19. | and how! Informal. certainly! you bet!: Am I happy? And how! | | 20. | Here's how, Informal. (used as a toast). | | 21. | how come? Informal. how is it that? why?: How come you never visit us anymore? | | 22. | how so? how does it happen to be so? why?: You haven't any desire to go? How so? | |
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Build Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to construct (esp. something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house. | | 2. | to establish, increase, or st
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rengthen (often fol. by up): to build a business; to build up one's hopes. | | 3. | to mold, form, or create: to build boys into men. | | 4. | to base; found: a relationship built on trust. | | 5. | Games. | a. | to make (words) from letters. | | b. | to assemble (cards) according to number, suit, etc., as in melding. | | –verb (used without object) | 6. | to engage in the art, practice, or business of building. | | 7. | to form or
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construct a plan, system of thought, etc. (usually fol. by on or upon): He built on the philosophies of the past. | | 8. | to increase or develop toward a maximum, as of intensity, tempo, or magnitude (often fol. by up): The drama builds steadily toward a climax. | –noun | 9. | the physical structure, esp. of a person; physique; figure: He had a strong build. | | 10. | the manner or form of construction: The house was of modern build. | | 11. | Masonry. | b. | the vertical dimension of a stone laid on its bed. | | —Verb phrases | 12. | build in or into, to build or incorporate as part of something else: to build in bookcases between the windows; an allowance for travel expenses built into the budget. | | 13. | build up, | a. | to develop or increase: to build up a bank account. | | d. | to fill in with houses; develop into an urban area. | | |
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Web Definition–noun | 1. | something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving. | | 2. | a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars; cobweb. | | 3. | Textiles. | a. | a woven fabric, esp. a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom. | | b. | the flat woven strip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug. | | | 4. | something resembling woven material, esp. something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance: He looked up at the web of branches of the old tree. | | 5. | an intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.: The thief was convicted by a web of evidence. Who can understand the web of life? | | 6. | something that snares or entangles; a trap: innocent travelers caught in the web of international terrorism. | | 8. | Zoology.
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a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds. | | 9. | Ornithology. | a. | the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather. | | b. | the series on both sides, collectively. | | | 10. | an integral or separate part of a beam, rail, truss, or the like, that forms a continuous, flat, narrow, rigid connection between two stronger, broader parallel parts, as the flanges of a structural shape, the head and foot of a rail, or the upper and lower chords of a truss. | | 11. | Machinery. an arm of a crank, usually one of a pair, holding one end of a crankpin at its outer end. | | 12. | Architecture. (in a vault) any surface framed by ribbing. | | 13. | a large roll of paper, as for continuous feeding of a web press. | | 14. | a network of interlinked stations, services, communications, etc., covering a region or country. | | 15. | Informal. a network of radio or television broadcasting stations. | –verb (used with object) | 17. | to cover with or as if with a web; envelop. | | 18. | to ensnare or entrap. | –verb (used without object) | 19. | to make or form a web. | |
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Site Definition–noun | 1. | the position or location of a town, building, etc., esp. as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin. | | 2. | the area or exact plot of ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located: the site of ancient Troy. | –verb (used with object) | 4. | to place in or provide with a site; locate. | | 5. | to put in position for operation, as artillery: to site a cannon. | |
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