When a word takes endings to indicate grammatical functions (called inflections), the endings are listed with the main entry, sometimes in boldface as with -garded, -garding, and -gards in the sample print entry.
Labels for the parts of speech and for other grammatical terms are sometimes abbreviated, as they are in the print entry. The most commonly used abbreviations are these:
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n. |
noun |
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adj. |
adjective |
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pl. |
plural |
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adv. |
adverb |
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sing. |
singular |
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pron. |
pronoun |
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v. |
verb |
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prep. |
preposition |
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tr. |
transitive verb |
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conj. |
conjunction |
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int. |
intransitive verb |
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interj. |
interjection |