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Word: Shop
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English: of West Germanic origin; related to German Schopf ‘porch’ and English dialect shippon ‘cattle shed’. The verb is first recorded (mid 16th century) in the sense ‘imprison’ (from an obsolete slang use of the noun for ‘prison’), hence shop (sense 2 of the verb)
ʃɒp
a building or part of a building where goods or services are sold
Short Definition:building where goods are sold
Examples:- a video shop
- a barber's shop
a place where things are manufactured or repaired; a workshop
Short Definition:place where things are manufactured or repaired
Examples:- an auto repair shop
Word: Shop
Speech Type: Verb
ʃɒp
visit one or more shops or websites to buy goods
Short Definition:go to shop or shops to buy goods
Examples:- she shopped for groceries twice a week
- don't buy a plastic carrier bag every time you go shopping
- sometimes it's more convenient to shop online
- take a trip to downtown San Diego to shop the upscale stores of Horton Plaza
inform on (someone)
Short Definition:inform on
Examples:- she shopped her husband to bosses for taking tools home
alter (a photographic image) digitally using Photoshop image-editing software
Short Definition:alter image using Photoshop software
Examples:- I reckon you shopped the image
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