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| batch |
A batch is an amount of something that is produced in one completed process. For example, a recipe for cookies might make twenty cookies. This means that twenty cookies is the size of one batch of those cookies. If you make another batch of cookies with that recipe, you'll bake forty cookies all together. |
| else |
If your mother says "Hurry up, or else you'll be late," it means that if you don't hurry up, you will be late. We often use "else" in this way to state some bad thing that will or might happen if we don't do something. [1/4 definitions] |
| express |
When you express a feeling, you do something to let others know you have that feeling. You let that feeling out in some way. If you're happy inside, maybe you'll tell other people about it, or maybe just smile a lot. When you express an idea, you tell that idea to others, usually in words, but sometimes in something like a drawing or painting or film. [1/4 definitions] |
| work |
If someone says they want "the works," it means that they want everything that is possible to get. If you order a pizza with the works, you'll get a whole lot of different things on top of your pizza. [1/12 definitions] |
| you'll |
"You'll" is a short way to say or write "you will." |
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