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  • 41first — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 (also first gear) lowest gear on a bicycle/vehicle VERB + FIRST ▪ get into, move into, slam into ▪ As he moved into first, the engine made a strange noise. ▪ engage (fo …

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  • 42first — ordinal number 1》 coming before all others in time or order; earliest; 1st.     ↘before doing something else. 2》 foremost in position, rank, or importance.     ↘Brit. a place in the top grade in an examination for a degree. 3》 for the first time …

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  • 43first — [[t]fɜrst[/t]] adj. 1) being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one[/ex] 2) mad highest or chief among several voices or instruments of the same class: first alto; first horn[/ex]… …

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  • 44First Love (novella) — seealso|First Love (1970 film) for the 1970 filminfobox Book | name = First Love title orig = Первая любовь (Pervaya ljubov) translator = image caption = author = Ivan Turgenev illustrator = cover artist = country = Russia language = Russian… …

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  • 45First Taranaki War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict = First Taranaki War partof = New Zealand land wars caption = date = March 17, 1860 to March 18, 1861 place = Taranaki, New Zealand territory = result = Indecisive status = combatant1 =flagicon|New Zealand New… …

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  • 46First Great Awakening — The First Great Awakening (referred to by some historians as the Great Awakening) was a period of heightened religious activity, primarily in Great Britain and its North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. In New England, the Great… …

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  • 47First East Turkestan Republic — Infobox Former Country native name= conventional long name= Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan or Republic of Uyghurstan common name= East Turkestan continent= Asia era= Interwar period status text= Satellite state of China status=… …

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  • 48First Peloponnesian War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=First Peloponnesian War date=c. 460 – c. 445 BC place=Mainland Greece territory=Megara was returned to the Peloponnesian League, Troezen and Achaea became independent, Aegina was to be a tributary to Athens but… …

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  • 49first — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. earliest, original, prime; leading, chief, fundamental. adv. firstly, originally, at first; before, ahead; sooner, rather. See beginning, priority, precedence. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Foremost in …

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  • 50First Third, The — by Neal Cassady (1971)    This autobiography is one of the least discussed books to come out of the Beat movement. This is not without irony since its author, neal cassady, was the human bonfire before which Beat leaders jack kerouac and allen… …

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