The Definition–definite article | 1. | (used, esp. before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an): the book you gave me; Come into the house. |
| 2. | (used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West. |
| 3. | (used with or as part of a title): the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith. |
| 4. | (used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time. |
| 5. | (used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped. |
| 6. | (used
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in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging): He won't be able to play football until the leg mends. |
| 7. | (used before adjectives that are used substantively, to note an individual, a class or number of individuals, or an abstract idea): to visit the sick; from the sublime to the ridiculous. |
| 8. | (used before a modifying adjective to specify or limit its modifying effect): He took the wrong road and drove miles out of his way. |
| 9. | (used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century): the sixties; the gay nineties. |
| 10. | (one of many of a class or type, as of a manufactured item, as opposed to an individual one): Did you listen to the radio last night? |
| 11. | enough: He saved until he had the money for a new car. She didn't have the courage to leave. |
| 12. | (used distributively, to note any one separately) for, to, or in each; a or an: at one dollar the pound. |
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Mirage Definition–noun | 1. | an optical phenomenon, esp. in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air. |
| 2. | something illusory, without substance or reality. |
| 3. | (initial capital letter ) Military. any of a series of supersonic, delta-wing, multirole French fighter-bombers. |
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