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to ask someone to come in order to do a job, especially when it is an emergency:

to entertain people while they are waiting for a performance to start, for example by telling jokes:

to divide something into smaller parts:

to collect, or to go and get, someone or something:

If you prick up your ears, or if your ears prick up, you suddenly begin to listen very carefully because you have heard something interesting:

to wake someone up by knocking on the door of their house or bedroom:

to wake someone up by knocking on the door of their house or bedroom:

to understand something or to find the answer to something by thinking about it:

to choose and emphasize, make clearer, or highlight someone or something:

If a drug or alcohol knocks you out, it makes you go to sleep:

a full-size model of something large that has not yet been built, showing how it will look or operate: