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ter — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • be verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
  • consider verb To think carefully about something before making a decision.
  • have verb To own or possess something.
  • hold verb To grasp, carry, or support something with your hands or arms.
  • judge noun A public official who presides over court cases and delivers rulings.
  • obtain verb To get or acquire something, often through effort or a formal process.
  • possess verb To have or own something.
  • take verb To reach out and get hold of something, or to remove or carry it away.

Senses

ter is used for these senses in English:

  • Tue Abbreviation of Tuesday.
  • be Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
  • be (rare, and, regional, chiefly, in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was. [from 15th c.]
  • be (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • be Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • be (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
  • consider To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
  • have (transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

be — full definition

  1. verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
  2. verb Used with another verb to form continuing or passive actions.

consider — full definition

  1. verb To think carefully about something before making a decision.
  2. verb To regard or judge someone or something as having a particular quality.
  3. verb To show regard or respect for someone's feelings or circumstances.

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