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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.
archaic
     1. n. (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the W
     2. n. (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
     3. adj. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
     4. adj. (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
     5. adj. (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period
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
bend
     1. v. To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
           If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
           Don’t bend your knees.
     2. v. (intransitive) To become curved.
           Look at the trees bending in the wind.
     3. v. To cause to change direction.
     4. v. (intransitive) To change direction.
           The road bends to the right
     5. v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
     6. v. (intransitive usually with "down") To stoop.
           He bent down to pick up the pieces.
     7. v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
     8. v. To force to submit.
           They bent me to their will.
     9. v. (intransitive) To submit.
           I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
     10. v. To apply to a task or purpose.
           He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
     11. v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
           He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
     12. v. To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
     13. v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
           Bend the sail to the yard.
     14. v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
           You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
     15. v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
     16. n. A curve.
           There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.
     17. n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
     18. n. (in the medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
           A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.
     19. n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged
     20. n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
     21. n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
     22. n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
     23. n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
     24. n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
           the midship bends
     25. n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
bow
     1. n. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
     2. n. A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
     3. n. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
     4. n. A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
     5. n. A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
     6. n. Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
     7. n. The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
     8. n. Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
     9. n. (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
     10. n. (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
     11. n. The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
     12. v. To play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow.
           The musician bowed his violin expertly.
     13. v. (intransitive) To become bent or curved.
           The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.
     14. v. To make something bend or curve.
     15. v. (transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
     16. v. (intransitive) To premiere.
           Cronenberg’s "Cosmopolis" bows in Cannes this week.
     17. v. (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
           That singer always bows towards her audience for some reason.
     18. v. (transitive, and intransitive) To debut.
     19. v. (intransitive) To defer (to something).
           I bow to your better judgement in the matter.
     20. v. To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
     21. n. A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
           He made a polite bow as he entered the room.
     22. n. (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.
     23. n. (rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
stoop
     1. n. (chiefly Northeastern US, chiefly New York, also, Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
     2. n. (US) The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
     3. v. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
           He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
     4. v. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
           Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
     5. v. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
     6. v. To cause to incline downward; to slant.
           to stoop a cask of liquor
     7. v. To cause to submit; to prostrate.
     8. v. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
     9. v. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
     10. v. To degrade.
     11. n. A stooping, bent position of the body
           The old man walked with a stoop.
     12. n. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
     13. n. (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
     14. n. A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.
Dictionary entries from Wiktionary