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92 uses of a standard dictionary​

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Here it goes:

1.) Looking up the definition of word given by teacher

2.) Look up the meaning of an English word you see or hear

3.) Find the English translation of a word in your language

4.) check the spelling of a word

5.) check the plural of a noun or past tense of a verb

6.) find out other grammatical information about a word

7.) find the synonym or antonym of a word

8.) look up the collocations of a word

9.) check the part of speech of a word

10.) find out how to say a word

11.) find out about the register of a word

12.) find examples of the use of a word in natural language

13.) Confirming the meanings of partially known words

14.) Conforming guesses from context

15.) Flower pressing

16.) Door stop

17.) Pillow in class

18.) Fire starter when stranded

19.) A thing to hit a kid with, with the sole purpose to say "Words do hurt"

20.) A thing to hold up and hide your phone with

21.) Something to stand on to gain more height

22.) Something we used to look up "Funny words" with in elementary school to show all our friends

23.) A makeshift bowling ball

24.) A weight

25.) Rip out the pages to do origami

Ok 25 is my lucky number and i can't think of anymore. Comment your ideas and i will edit it and put them in

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