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• e‧ras‧er [countable]
• a small piece of rubber that you use to remove pencil or pen marks from paper [= rubber British English]

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• cau‧li‧flow‧er [uncountable and countable]
• a vegetable with green leaves around a firm white centre
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DAILY UPDATED VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES. TABLE

• ta‧ble [countable]
• 1

  furniture

   a piece of furniture with a flat top supported by legs:
• the dining-room table
• lay the table British English set the tableAmerican English (=put knives, forks etc on a table before a meal)
• The waiter cleared the table (=took all the plates, glasses etc off).
• book/reserve a table (=in a restaurant)
• I've booked a table for two for 8 o'clock.
• coffee/bedside/dinner table
• 2

  sport/game

  snooker/billiard/ping-pong etc table

   a special table for playing a particular indoor sport or game on
• 3

  list

   a list of numbers, facts, or information arranged in rows across and down a page
• table of
• a table of results
• the table of contents
• 4

  on the table

   an offer, idea etc that is on the table has been officially suggested and someone is considering it:
• The offer on the table is a 10% wage increase.
• 5

  turn the tables (on somebody)

   to change a situation completely, so that someone loses an advantage and you gain one:
• The tables were turned in the second half, when Leeds United scored from the penalty spot.
• 6

  under the table

  informal money that is paid under the table is paid secretly and illegally:
• Payments were made under the table to local officials.
• 7

  maths

  times table

   a list that young children learn, in which all the numbers between 1 and 12 are multiplied by each other [= multiplication table]
• three/four etc times table
• He's 12 years old and still doesn't know his three times table.
• 8

  group

   the group of people sitting around a table:
• His stories kept the whole table amused.

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DAILY UPDATED VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES. typewriter

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• type‧writ‧er [countable]
• a machine with keys that you press in order to print letters of the alphabet onto paper

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DAILY UPDATED VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES. sauce pan

• sauce‧pan [countable]
• a deep round metal container with a handle that is used for cooking [= pan]:
• Heat the oil and garlic in a large saucepan.

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shoe

• shoe [countable]
• 1 something that you wear to cover your feet, made of leather or some other strong material:
• I sat down and took off my shoes and socks.
• a pair of shoes
• He was wearing pointed black shoes.
• What size shoes do you take?
• high-heeled shoes
• running shoes
• a shoe shop
• shoe polish
• 2
•  in somebody's shoes
• in someone else's situation, especially a bad one:
• I wouldn't like to be in his shoes when his wife finds out what happened.
• Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing.
• Don't be cross with them. Try to put yourself in their shoes(=imagine what it would feel like to be in their situation).
• 3
•  step into/fill somebody's shoes
• to do a job that someone else used to do, and do it as well as they did:
• It'll be hard to find someone to fill Pete's shoes.
• 4 a curved piece of iron that is nailed onto a horse's foot [= horseshoe]

• ➔ if the shoe fits, (wear it)

   at fit1 (8)

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Automobile

• au‧to‧mo‧bile [countable]
• American English a car:
• the automobile industry

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ENGLISH VOCABULARY FROM LONGMAN DICTIONARY. sugar

• sug‧ar
• 1 [uncountable] a sweet white or brown substance that is obtained from plants and used to make food and drinks sweet:
• Do you take sugar in your coffee?
• 2 [countable] British English the amount of sugar that a small spoon can hold:
• How many sugars do you want in your tea?
• 3 [countable] technical one of several sweet substances formed in plants
• 4 spoken used to address someone you like very much

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Computer

• com‧put‧er [countable]
• an electronic machine that stores information and uses programs to help you find, organize, or change the information:
• A message flashed up on my computer screen.
• Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 
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house

where someone lives

 [countable]

a) a building that someone lives in, especially one that has more than one level and is intended to be used by one family:

a four bedroom house

in a house

every room in the house

at somebody's house

We met at Alison's house.

Why don't you all come over to our house for coffee?

move house British English (=leave your house and go to live in another one)

b) 

the house

all the people who live in a house [= household]:

He gets up at six and disturbs the whole house.

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 
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