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Finding a word
Words with more than one entry
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Finding the meaning of a word
Finding out more about a word
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Finding a word: words with more than one entry

Sometimes the same word belongs to more than one word class:
for example, the word jet can be a noun and a verb. Each word class is shown as a separate entry.

The small number at the end of the headword tells you that a word has more than one entry.