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tending
1. n. Action of the verb to tend.
2. v. present participle of tend
tend
1. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
2. v. (legal, Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
3. v. (followed by a to infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain characteristic.
They tend to go out on Saturdays.
It tends to snow here in winter.
4. v. (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
We need to tend to the garden, which has become a mess.
5. v. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
Shepherds tend their flocks.
6. v. To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
7. v. (obsolete) To await; to expect.
8. v. (obsolete) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
9. v. (transitive, nautical) To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
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
inflame
1. v. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
2. v. (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
to inflame desire
3. v. To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
4. v. To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
to inflame the eyes by overwork
5. v. To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
6. v. (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
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.
provoke
1. v. To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
2. v. To bring about a reaction.
3. v. (obsolete) To appeal.
somebody
1. pron. Some unspecified person.
Somebody has to clean this mess up.
2. n. A recognised person, a celebrity.
I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.

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