(1) Haddon hall
(2) She's living in hall(s) .
(3) (British English)A jumble sale will be held in the village hall on Saturday.

(1) (British English,sport 体)the premier League/Division
(2) one of the country's premier chefs
(3) ...Australian premier Paul Keating.

(1) She finished law school last year.
(2) a beautifully finished piece of furniture
(3) He put the finishing touches to his painting (= did the things that made it complete) .

(1) There is a contradiction between the two sets of figures.
(2) His public speeches are in direct contradiction to his personal lifestyle.
(3) How can we resolve this apparent contradiction?

(1) The land inclined gently towards the shore.
(2) a steep/slight incline
(3) The government is more effective than we incline to think.

(1) St John
(2) St Valentine's Day
(3) The children were all named after saints.

(1) While the other children interacted and played together, Ted ignored them.
(2) ...rhymes and songs to help parents interact with their babies.
(3) Millions of people want new, simplified ways of interacting with a computer...

(1) We cannot afford to ignore their advice.
(2) She ignored him and carried on with her work.
(3) I made a suggestion but they chose to ignore it.

(1) the doctor's wife
(2) She's his second wife.
(3) an increase in the number of working wives

(1) The development will consist of 66 dwellings and a number of offices.
(2) Some 3,500 new dwellings are planned for the area...
(3) We hiked the Grand Canyon, exploring Indian cliff dwellings.

(1) He quenched his thirst with a long drink of cold water.
(2) She woke up with a raging thirst and a headache.
(3) Thousands are dying of thirst.

(1) The captain knew there was an engine fault but didn't want to alarm the passengers.
(2) A car alarm went off in the middle of the night (= started ringing) .
(3) The alarm went off at 7 o'clock.

(1) sparkling eyes
(2) Her jewellery sparkled in the candlelight.
(3) He always sparkles at parties.

(1) a fan heater
(2) He fanned himself with a newspaper to cool down.
(3) fanned by a westerly wind, the fire spread rapidly through the city.

(1) The price is dependent on how many extras you choose.
(2) to be dependent on drugs
(3) A child's development is dependent on many factors.

(1) Rye is tolerant of poor, acid soils.
(2) acid fruit
(3) an acid wit

(1) I fail to see the logic behind his argument.
(2) The two parts of the plan were governed by the same logic.
(3) Linking the proposals in a single package did have a certain logic.

(1) ...the gnarled trunk of a birch tree.
(2) …toadstools growing on fallen tree trunks.
(3) I wear these trunks because they have a streamline effect in the water.

(1) The book's virtues far outweigh its faults.
(2) The system, for all its faults , is the best available at the moment.
(3) a major fault in the design

(1) The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny-farthing.
(2) her ancestral home (= that had belonged to her ancestors )
(3) His ancestors had come to America from Ireland.

(1) We weighed anchor (= pulled it out of the water) .
(2) the anchor of the family
(3) We anchored off the coast of Spain.

(1) They determined to start early.
(2) An inquiry was set up to determine the cause of the accident.
(3) We set out to determine exactly what happened that night.

(1) a factory that produces microchips
(2) The region produces over 50% of the country's wheat.
(3) Our cat produced kittens last week.

(1) One liter of water was added, and the solution was left at 4 oC overnight.
(2) The guide disguised his guilty of mixing the liquor width a liter of liquid.
(3) The capacity of this bottle is one liter.

(1) She kept all the letters in a box.
(2) a money box
(3) cardboard boxes

(1) everyone brought their partner to the party.
(2) (formal)everyone brought his or her partner to the party.
(3) The police questioned everyone in the room.

(1) There's a bathroom and a lavatory upstairs.
(2) The nearest public lavatory is at the station.
(3) ...the ladies' lavatory at the University of London.

(1) an accurate description/account/calculation
(2) accurate information/data
(3) accurate records must be kept.

(1) She lay back against the pillows.
(2) pillow talk (= conversations in bed between lovers)
(3) He lay back on the grass using his backpack as a pillow.

(1) He inched his way through the narrow passage.
(2) I inched the car forward.
(3) She moved forward, inching towards the rope.

(1) a rail/road/canal network
(2) a network of veins
(3) a communications/distribution network

(1) 6 subtracted from 9 is 3.
(2) Mandy subtracted the date of birth from the date of death...
(3) We have subtracted $25 per adult to arrive at a basic room rate.

(1) a bunch of radishes
(2) I want to eat the radish for dinner.
(3) The radish comes out.

(1) The car was completely crushed under the truck.
(2) They crush the olives with a heavy wooden press.
(3) Several people were crushed to death in the accident.

(1) The area was covered in dense jungle.
(2) the jungles of South-East Asia
(3) jungle warfare

(1) You're not your usual cheerful self today.
(2) a cheerful, hard-working employee
(3) a cheerful smile/voice

(1) three kinds of cakes/cake
(2) music of all/various/different kinds
(3) Exercises of this kind are very popular.

(1) a person of wealth and influence
(2) His personal wealth is estimated at around $100 million.
(3) the distribution of wealth in Britain

(1) to have/exert a strong influence on sb
(2) the influence of the climate on agricultural production
(3) What exactly is the influence of television on children?