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Purchase Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy. | | 2. | to acquire by effort, sacrifice, flattery, etc. | | 3. | to influence by a bribe. | | 4. | to be sufficient to buy: Twenty dollars purchases a subscription. | | 5. | Law. to acquire (land or other property) by means other than inheritance. | | 6. | to move, haul, or raise, esp. by applying mechanical power. | | 7. | to get a leverage on; apply a lever, pulley, or other aid to. | | 8. | Obsolete. to procure, acquire, or obtain. | –verb (used without object) –noun | 10. | acquisition by the payment of money or its equivalent; buying, or a single act of
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buying. | | 11. | something that is purchased or bought. | | 12. | something purchased, with respect to value in relation to price; buy: At three for a dollar they seemed like a good purchase. | | 13. | Law. the acquisition of land or other property by means other than inheritance. | | 14. | acquisition by means of effort, labor, etc.: the purchase of comfort at the price of freedom. | | 15. | a lever, pulley, or other device that provides mechanical advantage or power for moving or raising a heavy ob
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ject. | | 16. | an effective hold or position for applying power in moving or raising a heavy object; leverage. | | 17. | any means of applying or increasing power, influence, etc. | | 18. | the annual return or rent from land. | | 19. | a firm grip or grasp, footing, etc., on something. | |
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Agreement Definition–noun | 1. | the act of agreeing or of coming to a mutual arrangement. | | 2. | the state of being in accord. | | 3. | an arrangement that is accepted by all parties to a transaction. | | 4. | a contract or other document delineating such an arrangement. | | 5. | unanimity of opinion; harmony in feeling: agreement among the members of
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the faculty. | | 6. | Grammar. correspondence in number, case, gender, person, or some other formal category between syntactically connected words, esp. between one or more subordinate words and the word or words upon which they depend; selection by one word of the matching formal subclass, or category, in another word syntactically construed with the first. | | 8. | Law. | a. | an expression of assent by two or more parties to the same object. | | b. | the phraseology, written or oral, of an exchange of promises. | | |
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Form Definition–noun | 1. | external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form. | | 2. | the shape of a thing or person. | | 3. | a body, esp. that of a human being. | | 4. | a dummy having the same measurements as a human body, used for fitting or displaying clothing: a dressmaker's form. | | 5. | something that gives or determines shape; a mold. | | 6. | a particular condition, character, or mode in which something appears: water in the form of ice. | | 7. | the manner or style of arranging and coordinating parts for a pleasing or effective result, as in literary or musical composition: a unique form for the novel. | | 8. | Fine Arts. | a. | the organization, placement, or relationship of basic elements, as lines and colors in a painting or volumes and voids in a sculpture, so as to produce a coherent image; the formal structure of a work of art. | | b. | three-dimensional quality or volume, as of a represented object or anatomical part. | | c. | an object, person, or part of the human body or the appearance of any of these, esp. as seen in nature: His work is characterized by the radical distortion of the human form. | | | 9. | any assemblage of things of a similar kind constituting a component of a group, especially of a zoological group. | | 10. | Crystallography. the combination of all the like faces possible on a crystal of given symmetry. | | 11. | due or proper shape; orderly arrangement of parts; good order. | | 12. | Philosophy. | a. | the structure, pattern, organization, or essential nature of anything. | | b. | structure or pattern as distinguished from matter. | | c. | (initial capital letter ) Platonism. idea (def. 7c). | | d. | Aristotelianism. that which places a thing in its particular species or kind. | | | 13. | Logic. the abstract relations of terms in a proposition, and of propositions to one another. | | 14. | a set, prescribed, or customary order or method of doing something. | | 15. | a set order of words, as for use in religious ritual or in a legal document: a form for initiating new members. | | 16. | a document with blank spaces to be filled in with particulars before it is executed: a tax form. | | 17. | a typical document to be used as a guide in framing others for like cases: a form for a deed. | | 18. | a conventional method of procedure or behavior: society's forms. | | 19. | a formality or ceremony, often with implication of absence of real meaning: to go through the out
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ward forms of a religious wedding. | | 20. | procedure according to a set order or method. | | 21. | conformity to the usages of society; formality; ceremony: the elaborate forms prevalent in the courts of renaissance kings. | | 22. | procedure or conduct, as judged by social standards: Such behavior is very bad form. Good form demands that we go. | | 23. | manner or method of performing something; technique: The violin soloist displayed tremendous form. | | 24. | physical condition or fitness, as for performing: a tennis player in peak form. | | 25. | Grammar. | a. | a word, part of a word, or group of words forming a construction that recurs in various contexts in a language with relatively constant meaning. Compare linguistic form. | | b. | a particular shape of such a form that occurs in more than one shape. In I'm, 'm is a form of am. | | c. | a word with a particular inflectional ending or other modification. Goes is a form of go. | | | 26. | Linguistics. the shape or pattern of a word or other construction (distinguished from substance ). | | 27. | Building Trades. temporary boarding or sheeting of plywood or metal for giving a desired shape to poured concrete, rammed earth, etc. | | 28. | a grade or class of pupils in a British secondary school or in certain U.S. private schools: boys in the fourth form. | | 29. | British. a bench or long seat. | | 30. | Also, British, forme. Printing. an assemblage of types, leads, etc., secured in a chase to print from. | –verb (used with object) | 31. | to construct or frame. | | 33. | to serve to make up; serve as; compose; constitute: The remaining members will form the program committee. | | 34. | to place in order; arrange; organize. | | 35. | to frame (ideas, opinions, etc.) in the mind. | | 36. | to contract or develop (habits, friendships, etc.). | | 37. | to give form or shape to; shape; fashion. | | 38. | to give a particular form or shape to; fashion in a particular manner: Form the dough into squares. | | 39. | to mold or develop by discipline or instructions: The sergeant's job was to form boys into men. | | 40. | Grammar. | a. | to make (a derivation) by some grammatical change: The suffix “-ly” forms adverbs from adjectives. | | | b. | to have (a grammatical feature) represented in a particular shape: English forms plurals in “-s”. | |
| 41. | Military. to draw up in lines or in formation. | –verb (used without object) | 42. | to take or assume form. | | 43. | to be formed or produced: Ice began to form on the window. | | 44. | to take a particular form or arrangement: The ice formed in patches across the window. | |
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