snowboarding |
1. n. The sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard. | |
2. v. present participle of snowboard | |
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 | |
ride |
1. v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. | |
2. v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. | |
3. v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. | |
The cab rode him downtown. | |
4. v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. | |
5. v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. | |
The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle. | |
A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast. | |
7. v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. | |
8. v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). | |
9. v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on). | |
11. v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). | |
12. v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman. | |
13. v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. | |
14. v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. | |
15. v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments. | |
16. n. An instance of riding. | |
Can I have a ride on your bike? | |
17. n. (informal) A vehicle. | |
That is a nice ride you are driving. | |
18. n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. | |
19. n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle. | |
Can you give me a ride? | |
20. n. (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path. | |
21. n. (dialect) A saddle horse. | |
22. n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive. | |
aggressively |
1. adv. In an aggressive manner. | |