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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
wet
1. adj. Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
Synonyms: wetting
Water is wet.
2. adj. Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
Synonyms: damp, saturated, soaked, Thesaurus:wet
I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
3. adj. Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
4. adj. Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
5. adj. Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
6. adj. Of weather or a time period: rainy.
Synonyms: damp, raining, rainy
It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
7. adj. (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
Synonyms: green, wet behind the ears
That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.
8. adj. (slang) (of women) Sexually aroused and thus having a vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
Synonyms: horny, moist, Thesaurus:randy
He got me all wet.
9. adj. (Britain, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
Synonyms: feeble, hopeless, useless
Don’t be so wet.
10. adj. (slang) Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
11. adj. (slang) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
12. adj. (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
13. adj. (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
14. n. Liquid or moisture.
15. n. Rainy weather.
Don't go out in the wet.
16. n. (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
17. n. (UK, pejorative) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, contrasted with dry.
18. n. (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
19. n. (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
20. v. To cover or impregnate with liquid.
21. v. To accidentally urinate in or on.
Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
22. v. (intransitive) To make or become wet.
23. v. (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
24. v. misspelling of whet
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
stain
1. n. A discoloured spot or area.
2. n. A blemish on one's character or reputation.
3. n. A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
4. n. A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
5. n. (heraldry) Any of a number of non-standard tinctures used in modern heraldry.
6. v. To discolour.
to stain the hand with dye
armour stained with blood
7. v. To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
8. v. To coat a surface with a stain
to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.
the stained glass used for church windows
9. v. (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain.
10. v. (transitive, cytology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
11. v. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
object
1. n. A thing that has physical existence.
2. n. objective, Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
3. n. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.
4. n. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
Mary Jane had been the object of Peter's affection for years.
The convertible, once the object of his desire, was now the object of his hatred.
Where's your object of ridicule now?
5. n. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
6. n. (category theory) An element within a category upon which function, functions operate. Thus, a category consists of a set of element objects and the functions that operate on them.
7. n. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
8. v. 'panget
9. v. (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
completely
1. adv. (manner) In a complete manner
Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number 2 pencil.
2. adv. (degree) To the fullest extent or degree; totally.
He is completely mad.
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?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
some
1. pron. A certain number, at least one.
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.
2. pron. An indefinite quantity.
Can I have some of them?
3. pron. An indefinite amount, a part.
please give me some of the cake; everyone is wrong some of the time
4. det. A certain proportion of, at least one.
Some people like camping.
5. det. An unspecified quantity or number of.
Would you like some grapes?
6. det. An unspecified amount of (something un).
Would you like some water?
After some persuasion, he finally agreed.
7. det. A certain, an unspecified or unknown.
I've just met some guy who said he knew you.
The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v.
8. det. A considerable quantity or number of; approximately.
He had edited the paper for some years.
9. det. (informal) A remarkable.
He is some acrobat!
10. adv. Of a measurement: approximately, roughly
I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.
Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat.
Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded.
physical
1. adj. Having to do with the body.
Are you feeling any physical effects?
2. adj. Having to do with the material world.
It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind.
3. adj. Involving bodily force.
This team plays a very physical game, so watch out.
4. adj. Having to do with physics.
The substance has a number of interesting physical properties.
5. adj. (computing) Not virtual; directly corresponding to hardware operation.
6. adj. (obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative.
7. n. Physical examination.
How long has it been since your last physical?
quality
1. n. Level of excellence.
This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality.
Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.
2. n. A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily.
While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.
Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system.
3. n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)
A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality.
Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.
4. n. The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
5. n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
6. n. (emergency medicine) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?".
7. adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.
We only sell quality products.
That was a quality game by Jim Smith.
A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.

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