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intransitive
1. adj. (grammar, of a verb) not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object
The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often.".
2. adj. (rare) not transitive or passing further; kept; detained
And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. — Jeremy Taylor.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
walk
1. v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times
To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
2. v. (intransitive, colloquial, legal) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
3. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
4. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believ
5. v. To travel (a distance) by walking.
I walk two miles to school every day. The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
6. v. To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
I walk the dog every morning. Will you walk me home?
7. v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
8. v. To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
9. v. To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
10. v. To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
I walked the streets aimlessly. Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
11. v. (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
12. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
13. v. To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
14. v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
15. v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
16. v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
17. v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
18. v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
19. n. A trip made by walking.
I take a walk every morning
20. n. A distance walked.
It’s a long walk from my house to the library
21. n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
22. n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year
23. n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
24. n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
25. n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone
26. n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
27. n. (Caribbean, Guyana, Belize) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.Lise Winer (ed.), Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, p.(n
28. n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
29. n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
30. n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
31. n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
32. n. (finance) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
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12. n. alternative form of withe
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
shuffling
1. v. present participle of shuffle
2. n. The act or motion of one who shuffles.
3. n. The noise created by something moving about.
4. n. (dated) trickery
5. adj. Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
6. adj. evasive
shuffle
1. n. The act of shuffling cards.
He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
2. n. The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
3. n. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
4. n. (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds lik
5. n. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
6. v. To put in a random order.
Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
You shuffle, I'll deal.
The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.
7. v. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
He shuffled out of the room.
I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
8. v. To change; modify the order of something.
9. v. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
10. v. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
11. v. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
to shuffle money from hand to hand
12. v. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
gait
1. n. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
Carrying a heavy suitcase, he had a lopsided gait.
2. n. (horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
3. v. To teach a specific gait to a horse.
4. n. (dialect) A sheaf of corn.
5. n. (dialect) A charge for pasturage.

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