when someone or something gets to a place being of the time being discussed a polite word for 'old', used to describe people a business or organization being about equal in value, use, or meaning basic structure of something place in a fence which can be opened or closed person who leads a state or province a measure of length; 1/12 of a foot (2.54 centimeters) to need to pay money to a person, bank, business, etc. 1. the level of a sound; 2. a throw of a ball; 3. a speech to sell something; 4. black substance that is sticky when hot and hard when dry a town or an area of a town next to water where ships arrive and leave from process of producing a book or magazine to prevent from doing something very small in degree or amount firm or hard; not a gas or liquid to find, describe or discover by investigation a set of clothes that show you are part of a group or school not familiar or famous area of space used for a particular reason