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approximately — Everyday, meaning 1: Close to an exact amount, number or time, but not exactly; about.↗ Example: There were approximately 200 people at the concert.↗ · The journey takes approximately two hours.↗ · 49 + 52 is approximately 100.↗ · Round 3.87 to approximately 4.↗ · The bag weighs approximately 5 kilograms.↗ · Approximately half the class walk to school.↗ · Estimate approximately how many beans are in the jar.↗

approximation — Everyday, meaning 1: A value or answer that is close to the exact one but not exactly right.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that is like something else but not exactly the same.↗ Example: 3.14 is an approximation of pi.↗ · Give an approximation to the nearest ten.↗ · My drawing is an approximation of the castle.↗ · 1,000 is a rough approximation of 987.↗ · The map is only an approximation of the coast.↗ · Scientists gave an approximation of the dinosaur's weight.↗

appurtenance — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Something that belongs to a larger thing or goes with it.↗

apricot — Everyday, meaning 1: An apricot is a small, round, soft fruit with orange-yellow skin and a large stone inside.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Apricot is a pale orange-yellow colour.↗ Example: I had dried apricots in my lunchbox.↗ · Apricot jam is my favourite.↗ · The apricot tree is full of fruit.↗ · She painted her room apricot.↗ · Apricots have a large stone in the middle.↗ · Apricot kernels should not be eaten — they can be poisonous.↗ · Early apples, ladies; early pears and apricots, and all cheap.↗

april — Everyday, meaning 1: April is the fourth month of the year.↗ It has 30 days.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the northern half of the world it is spring; in Australia and New Zealand it is autumn.↗ Example: April has 30 days.↗ · It rained on 12 days in April.↗ · Her birthday is in April.↗ · How many days are left in April?↗ · April comes after March and before May.↗ · «April showers bring May flowers.»↗ · On April Fools' Day my brother told me school was cancelled.↗ · In New Zealand the leaves fall in April.↗ · We arrived in England on the 13th of April, 1702.↗ · The present thesis appeared in the JEWISH QUATERLY REVIEW new series for April 1912 vol 11, and for April 1913 vol. 111.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

apron — Everyday, meaning 1: An apron is a piece of cloth you tie over the front of your clothes to keep them clean while cooking, painting or working.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: At an airport, the apron is the area where planes park and are loaded.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The apron of a stage is the part in front of the curtain.↗ Example: Put on your apron before you start painting.↗ · The baker's apron was covered in flour.↗ · Grandma tied her apron and began to cook.↗ · We wore aprons in the science lab.↗ · My apron has a big pocket at the front.↗ · The planes waited on the apron at the airport.↗ · Dad's apron says Best Cook.↗ · ‘What have you got in your apron?’↗ · the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles; (Prophets ISA.3.22, JPS 1917)↗

apt — Everyday, meaning 1: Apt means suitable or just right for the situation.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If someone is apt to do something, they often tend to do it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old-fashioned) An apt pupil learns quickly.↗ Example: «Busy as a bee» is an apt description of my mum.↗ · That was an apt name for such a fast dog.↗ · The old door is apt to stick in wet weather.↗ · Little brothers are apt to copy everything you do.↗ · She was an apt pupil and learned to read quickly.↗ · It is apt that the gardening club meets in spring.↗ · The strong are apt to settle questions to their own advantage.↗ · The various commentaries upon it are more apt to bewilder the student than to enlighten him.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.↗ (Prophets 2KI.24.16, JPS 1917)↗

aptitude — Everyday, meaning 1: A natural ability or talent to do something well or to learn it quickly.↗ Example: She has an aptitude for languages.↗ · He showed great aptitude for drawing.↗ · The aptitude test checks how quickly you learn.↗ · Some children have an aptitude for music from a young age.↗ · His aptitude for numbers made him good at chess.↗ · You don't need an aptitude for sport to enjoy it.↗

aqua — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Water, or a blue-green colour like water.↗

aquaplane — Everyday, meaning 1: If a car aquaplanes, its tyres slide on a layer of water on a wet road and lose grip, so the driver cannot steer or brake well.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) An aquaplane was a board towed by a motorboat that a person stood on, like early water-skiing.↗ Example: The car aquaplaned on the flooded road.↗ · Slow down in heavy rain, or your car may aquaplane.↗ · Worn tyres make aquaplaning more likely.↗ · The lorry aquaplaned and slid into the hedge.↗ · Water between the tyre and road reduces friction.↗ · Road signs warn drivers about aquaplaning.↗

aquarium — Everyday, meaning 1: A glass tank filled with water where fish and other water animals and plants are kept, at home or at school.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A building, like a zoo for water animals, where people go to see fish, sharks, turtles and other sea creatures.↗ Example: We have a small aquarium with goldfish in our classroom.↗ · At the aquarium we walked through a tunnel under the sharks.↗ · Don't tap on the aquarium glass — it scares the fish.↗ · The aquarium pump puts air bubbles into the water.↗ · We cleaned the aquarium and changed some of the water.↗ · The big aquarium has turtles, octopuses and jellyfish.↗ · Plants in an aquarium give off oxygen.↗

aquarius — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A sign of the zodiac, shown as a water carrier, which is also a group of stars.↗ Example: [paragraph continues] Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned it, combined and formed with it Aquarius in the Year, and the gullet in Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned, combined, and formed Aquarius in the world, Sebat in the year, and the gullet in man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

aquatic — Everyday, meaning 1: Aquatic means living or growing in water, as in «aquatic plants».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Aquatic also means happening in or on water, as in «aquatic sports» like swimming and diving.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare) An aquatic is a plant or animal that lives in water.↗ Example: Frogs lay their eggs in an aquatic habitat.↗ · Water lilies are aquatic plants.↗ · Fish have gills because they are aquatic.↗ · We went to the aquatic centre for swimming lessons.↗ · Diving and water polo are aquatic sports.↗ · Otters are partly aquatic animals.↗ · The white aquatic birds skimmed the surface of the water in their flight, and all was calm and still as amid the black rocks at Delphi.↗

aqueduct — Everyday, meaning 1: An aqueduct is a bridge that carries water, either a channel of water or a canal, across a valley or river.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An aqueduct is any man-made channel or pipe that carries water a long way, for example to a city.↗ Example: The Romans built an aqueduct to bring water to the city.↗ · The aqueduct had rows of tall stone arches.↗ · Water flowed slowly downhill along the aqueduct.↗ · We crossed the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on a narrowboat.↗ · Some aqueducts were over 50 kilometres long.↗ · The old aqueduct still stands in Segovia, Spain.↗ · An aqueduct carries water; a viaduct carries a road or railway.↗

ar — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, dialect) In parts of northern England and the Midlands, «ar» or «arr» means "yes", and «ar» can also mean "our": «ar kid» (my brother or sister).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Ar is the chemical symbol for argon, a gas in the air used in light bulbs.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (abbreviation) AR is short for Arkansas, a US state, and for augmented reality, where a screen shows computer pictures over the real world.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Arr!» is how pirates talk in films and cartoons.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Ar is also the name of the letter R said aloud.↗ Example: (UK, dialect) "Are you coming?" "↗ Ar, I'm coming."↗ · (UK, dialect) Ar kid's gone to the shops.↗ · (science) The symbol Ar stands for argon.↗ · (computing) We used an AR app to see a dinosaur in our classroom.↗ · "Arr, me hearties!" said the pirate.↗ · (US) Little Rock is the capital of AR, Arkansas.↗ · 'Thou art this day to pass over the border of Moab, even Ar; (Torah DEU.2.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. — (Torah NUM.21.15, JPS 1917)↗ · For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it hath devoured Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon.↗ (Torah NUM.21.28, JPS 1917)↗ · For in the night that Ar of Moab is laid waste, he is brought to ruin; for in the night that Kir of Moab is laid waste, he is brought to ruin.↗ (Prophets ISA.15.1, JPS 1917)↗

arab — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose people come from the Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia or Morocco.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) To do with Arabs or the Arab world, like Arab culture.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An Arab horse, a beautiful breed known for speed and strength.↗ Example: Many Arab families live in our city.↗ · We learned about the Arab world in geography.↗ · Arab scholars long ago helped develop algebra.↗ · My friend Layla's family is Arab and speaks Arabic at home.↗ · The Arab horse is famous for its speed.↗ · Arab countries stretch from Morocco to Oman.↗ · Our class tasted food from different Arab countries.↗ · She first drank herself, according to the Arab custom, and then filled it for her sisters.↗ · The Hebrew grammarians under Arabic influence came to believe that tliose rules of ortho- graphy which the Arab grammarians invented for the language of the Koran hold good also for the language of the Old Testament.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

arabesque — Everyday, meaning 1: A decoration of flowing lines, leaves and curls, often repeated in a pattern.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (ballet) A pose on one leg with the other leg stretched out straight behind.↗ Example: The gate had a pretty arabesque of leaves.↗ · The sleeves were stitched with arabesques of roses.↗ · The dancer held an arabesque on one toe.↗

arabian — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with Arabia, the large peninsula in south-west Asia, or its people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An Arabian horse: a fast, graceful breed of horse.↗ Example: The Arabian Peninsula is mostly desert.↗ · She rode a beautiful Arabian horse.↗ · The Arabian Sea is part of the Indian Ocean.↗ · "Aladdin" is one of the tales in The Arabian Nights.↗ · Camels live in the Arabian desert.↗ · Arabian horses have a dished face and high tail.↗ · It also crept into the voyages of Sindbad in the Arabian Nights.↗ · From this sym- bol originated the numeral 0 (.ji in the East-Arabian notation.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · "') As an early Arabian mathematiciaa Mohammed ben Musa Alkhowa- rezini said that the lodians practiced the so-called Arabian system of notation (M. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Indeed, the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 were originally indicated by such a series of strokes, as is well known to all familiar with the old Roman, Greek, and South-Arabian systems of notation.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotries and with thy wickedness.↗ (Prophets JER.3.2, JPS 1917)↗ · It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.↗ (Prophets ISA.13.20, JPS 1917)↗ · But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: 'What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?'↗ (Writings NEH.2.19, JPS 1917)↗

arabic — Everyday, meaning 1: Arabic is the language spoken by many millions of people in the Middle East and North Africa.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Arabic describes things connected with the Arabic language, Arabs and their culture, like Arabic writing or Arabic food.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Arabic numerals are the usual number signs 0 to 9.↗ Example: Arabic is written from right to left.↗ · My friend Layla speaks Arabic and English.↗ · We use Arabic numerals like 7 and 9, not Roman ones like VII.↗ · The Arabic alphabet has 28 letters.↗ · Arabic is spoken in Egypt, Morocco and many other countries.↗ · The mosque has beautiful Arabic writing on the wall.↗ · Reassured by the nature of their occupation, I advanced towards them and they greeted me in Arabic, asking who I was and whence I came.↗ · Tiie so-called Arabic alphabet consisted originally of only seventen letters.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The Arabic alphabet consisted originally of the following seventeen letters:") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · As the Arabic numeral system of notation, the vowels, and the (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗