Pay Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill. | | 2. | to give over (a certain amount o
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| a. | to pay (someone) everything that is due that person, esp. to do so and discharge from one's employ. | | b. | to pay (a debt) in full. | | d. | to retaliate upon or punish. | | e. | Nautical. to fall off to leeward. | | f. | to result in success or failure: The risk paid off handsomely. | | | 30. |
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pay out, | a. | to distribute (money, wages, etc.); disburse. | | b. | to get revenge upon for an injury; punish. | | c. | to let out (a rope) by slackening. | | | 31. | pay up, | b. | to pay on demand: The gangsters used threats of violence to force the shopkeepers to pay up. | | —Idioms | 32. | pay as you go, | a. | to pay for (goods, services, etc.) at the time of purchase, as opposed to buying on credit. | | b. | to spend no more than income permits; keep out of debt. | | c. | to pay income tax by regular deductions from one's salary or wages. | | | 33. | pay back, | a. | to repay or return: to pay back a loan. | | b. | to retaliate against or punish: She paid us back by refusing the invitation. | | | 34. | pay one's or its way, | a. | to pay one's portion of shared expenses. | | b. | to yield a return on one's investment sufficient to repay one's expenses: It will take time for the restaurant to begin paying its way. | | |
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Per Definition–preposition | 1. | for each; for every: Membership costs ten dollars per year. This cloth is two dollars per yard. | | 2. | by means of; by; through: I am sending the recipe per messenger. | | 3. | according to; in accordance with: I delivered the box per your instructions. | –adverb | 4. | Informal. each; for each one: The charge for window-washing was five dollars per. | From DictionaryClick Definition–noun | 1. | a slight, sharp sound: At the click of the latch, the dog barked. | | 2. | a small device for preventing backward movement of a mechanism, as a detent or pawl. | | 3. | Phonetics. any one of a variety of ingressive, usually implosive, speech sounds, phonemic in some languages, produced by suction occlusion and plosive or affricative release. | | 4. |
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any one of a variety of familiar sounds used in calling or urging on horses or other animals, in expressing reprimand or sympathy, or produced in audible kissing. | –verb (used without object) | 5. | to emit or make a slight, sharp sound, or series of such sounds, as by the cocking of a pistol: The door clicked shut. | | 6. | Informal. | a. | to succeed; make a hit: If the play clicks, the producer will be rich. | | b. | to fit together; function well together: They get along in public, but their personalities don't really click. | | c. | to become intelligible. | | | 7. | Computers. to depress and release a mouse button rapidly, as to select an icon. | –verb (used with object) | 9. | to strike together with a click: He clicked his heels and saluted. | |
From DictionarySoftware Definition–noun | 1. | Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def. 5). | | 2. | anything that is not hardware but is used with hardware, esp. audiovisual materials, as film, tapes, records, etc.: a studio fully equipped but lacking software. | | 3. | Television Slang. prepackaged materials, as movies or reruns, used to fill out the major part of a station's program schedule.<
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