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transitive
     1. adj. Making a transit or passage.
     2. adj. Affected by transference of signification.
     3. adj. (grammar, of a verb) Taking an object or objects.
           The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticeda problem".
     4. adj. (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z.
           "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
     5. adj. (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
     6. adj. (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
obsolete
     1. adj. (of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject).
           It is speculated that, within a few years, the Internet's speedy delivery of news worldwide will make newspapers obsolete.
     2. adj. (biology) Imperfectly developed; not very distinct.
     3. v. (transitive, US) To cause to become obsolete.
           This software component has been obsoleted.
           We are in the process of obsoleting this product.
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
suit
     1. n. A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
           Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
     2. n. (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
     3. n. (pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
           Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
     4. n. A full set of armour.
     5. n. (legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
           If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.
     6. n. (obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
     7. n. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
     8. n. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
     9. n. The full set of sails required for a ship.
     10. n. (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic and French playing cards.
     11. n. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
           Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
     12. n. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
     13. n. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
     14. v. To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
     15. v. (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
           The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
           That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
     16. v. To be appropriate or apt for.
           The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
           Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
     17. v. (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
     18. v. To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
           He is well suited with his place.
           My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much.
     19. v. (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
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
pair
     1. n. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
           I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.
     2. n. Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
           Spouses should make a great pair.
     3. n. (Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only))
           a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans
     4. n. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
           A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.
     5. n. (cards) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
     6. n. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
     7. n. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play
           They turned a pair to end the fifth.
     8. n. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
           The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.
     9. n. (slang) A pair of breasts
           She's got a gorgeous pair.
     10. n. (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
     11. n. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
           There were two pairs on the final vote.
     12. n. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
     13. n. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, s
     14. v. To group into sets of two.
           The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
     15. v. To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
     16. v. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
     17. v. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
     18. v. (computing) to form wireless connection between to devices
     19. v. (obsolete) To impair.
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
match
     1. n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
           My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
     2. n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
     3. n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
           He knew he had met his match.
     4. n. A marriage.
     5. n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
     6. n. Suitability.
     7. n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
     8. n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
           The carpet and curtains are a match.
     9. n. An agreement or compact.
     10. n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts o
     11. v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
           Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
           These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
     12. v. To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
           His interests didn't match her interests.
     13. v. To make a successful match or pairing.
           They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
     14. v. To equal or exceed in achievement.
           She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
     15. v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
     16. v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
           to match boards
     17. n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
           He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
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