| I |
| 1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence. | |
| (audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio) | |
| 2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence. | |
| 3. n. (metaphysics) The ego. | |
| 4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate. | |
| 5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case) | |
| 6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I | |
| want |
| 1. v. To wish for or to desire (something). | |
| What do you want to eat? I want you to leave. I never wanted to go back to live with my mother. I want to be an astronaut when I'm older. I don't want him | |
| 2. v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking or deficient; not to exist. | |
| There was something wanting in the play. | |
| 3. v. To lack, not to have (something). | |
| 4. v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something). | |
| That chair wants fixing. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack. | |
| 6. n. A desire, wish, longing. | |
| 7. n. (often, followed by of) Lack, absence. | |
| 8. n. Poverty. | |
| 9. n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt. | |
| 10. n. (mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. | |
| 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 | |
| nibble |
| 1. n. A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth. | |
| 2. n. (in the nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks. | |
| 3. v. To eat with small, quick bites. | |
| The rabbit nibbled the lettuce. | |
| The rabbit nibbled at the lettuce. | |
| 4. v. To bite lightly. | |
| He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver. | |
| 5. v. (figurative) To consume gradually. | |
| 6. v. To find fault; to cavil. | |
| 7. n. (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits.http://foldoc.org/nibble | |
| Her |
| 1. pron. honoraltcaps, her | |
| 2. det. Belonging to her. | |
| This is her book | |
| 3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc. | |
| Give it to her (after preposition) | |
| He wrote her a letter (indirect object) | |
| He treated her for a cold (direct object) | |
| 4. n. (informal) A female person or animal. | |
| I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her. | |
| nape |
| 1. n. The back part of the neck. | |
| 2. n. (zoology) The part of a fish immediately behind the head. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) A tablecloth. | |
| 4. v. To bombard with napalm. | |
