a place to stay, often a hotel around; nearly; almost; about (a number) to move air into and out of your lungs of the color of coffee, wood, or chocolate a small piece that was broken or taken off something typical weather conditions in a particular place to make something unclear or hard to understand to deal successfully with a difficult problem big company or a combination of several companies to have or experience something, often unpleasant or difficult something not included in or different from a group of things to give a reason to explain why you did something the best or most interesting part of something in part; not completely someone whose job is to write and report news for a newspaper, magazine, television, or radio station a light piece of clothing with sleeves for the upper body in or from the south game played by hitting a ball over a net concerning a city; located in a city the person or animal that is the best in a contest or first in a race