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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
converse
     1. v. (formal, intransitive) to talk; to engage in conversation
     2. v. to keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with
     3. v. (obsolete) to have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study
     4. n. (now literary) familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
     5. adj. opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal
           a converse proposition
     6. n. the opposite or reverse
     7. n. (logic) of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true."equivalently: given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs".
           All trees are plants, but the converse, that all plants are trees, is not true.
     8. n. (semantics) one of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym
together
     1. adv. At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity.
           We went to school together.
     2. adv. Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
           He put all the parts together.
     3. adv. In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
           Bob and Andy went into business together.  Jenny and Mark have been together since they went on holiday to Mexico.
     4. adj. (colloquial) Coherent; well organized.
           He's really together.
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
sympathy
     1. n. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
     2. n. The ability to share the feelings of another.
     3. n. A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
     4. n. Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.
           Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.
     5. n. Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.
and
     1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
     2. conj.          Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
     3. conj.          Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
     4. conj.          Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
     5. conj.          (obsolete) Yet; but.
     6. conj.          Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
     7. conj.          (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
     8. conj.          Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
     9. conj.          Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
     10. conj.          Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
     11. conj.          (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
     12. conj.          Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
     13. conj.          Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
     14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
     15. conj.          (now US dialect) If; provided that.
     16. conj.          (obsolete) As if, as though.
     17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
     18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
     19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
     20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
confidence
     1. n. Self-assurance.
     2. n. A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
     3. n. Information held in secret.
     4. n. (dated) Boldness; presumption.
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
interchange
     1. v. to switch (each of two things)
           to interchange places
     2. v. to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
     3. v. (intransitive) to swap or change places
     4. v. to alternate; to intermingle or vary
           to interchange cares with pleasures
     5. n. An act of interchanging.
     6. n. A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
     7. n. (rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
           Holborn tube station is the only interchange between the London Underground Central and Piccadilly Lines
sentiments
     1. n. plural of sentiment
     sentiment
          1. n. A general thought, feeling, or sense.
          2. n. Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.
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.
feelings
     1. n. plural of feeling
     feeling
          1. adj. Emotionally sensitive.
                Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
          2. adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
                He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
          3. n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
                The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
          4. n. Emotion; impression.
                The house gave me a feeling of dread.
          5. n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
                You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
          6. n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
                Many people still have feelings for their first love.
          7. n. Intuition.
                He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
                I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
          8. n. An opinion, an attitude.
          9. v. present participle of feel
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
take
     1. v. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
           They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
           I'll take that plate off the table.
     2. v.          To seize or capture.
                   take the guards prisoner
                   take prisoners
                   After a bloody battle, they were able to take the city.
     3. v.          To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
                   took ten catfish in one afternoon
     4. v.          (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
     5. v.          To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
                   Billy took her pencil.
     6. v.          To exact.
                   take a toll
                   take revenge
     7. v.          To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
                   took the next two tricks
                   took Smith's rook
     8. v. To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
           took third place
           took bribes
           The camera takes 35mm film.
     9. v.          To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
                   The store doesn't take checks.
                   She wouldn't take any money for her help.
                   Do you take credit?
                   The vending machine only takes bills, it doesn't take coins.
     10. v.          To accept and follow (advice, etc).
                   take my advice
     11. v.          To receive into some relationship.
                   take a wife
                   The school only takes new students in the fall.
                   The therapist wouldn't take him as a client.
     12. v.          (transitive, intransitive, legal) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
     13. v. To remove.
           take two eggs from the carton
     14. v.          To remove or end by death; to kill.
                   The earthquake took many lives.
                   The plague took rich and poor alike.
                   Cancer took her life.
                   He took his life last night.
     15. v.          To subtract.
                   take one from three and you are left with two
     16. v. To have sex with.
     17. v. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
           Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you.
           The woman guarding us looks like a professional, but I can take her!
     18. v. To grasp or grip.
           He took her hand in his.
     19. v. To select or choose; to pick.
           Take whichever bag you like.
           She took the best men with her and left the rest to garrison the city.
           I'll take the blue plates.
           I'll take two sugars in my coffee, please.
     20. v. To adopt (select) as one's own.
           She took his side in every argument.
           take a stand on the important issues
     21. v. To carry or lead (something or someone).
           She took her sword with her everywhere she went.
           I'll take the plate with me.
     22. v.          (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
                   The next bus will take you to Metz.
                   I took him for a ride
                   I took him down to London.
     23. v.          (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
                   These stairs take you down to the basement.
                   Stone Street took us right past the store.
     24. v.          To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
                   She took the steps two or three at a time/
                   He took the curve / corner too fast.
                   The pony took every hedge and fence in its path.
     25. v.          To escort or conduct (a person).
                   He took her to lunch at the new restaurant, took her to the movies, and then took her home.
     26. v.          (reflexive) To go.
     27. v. To use as a means of transportation.
           take the ferry
           I took a plane.
           He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester.
           He's 96 but he still takes the stairs.
     28. v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
     29. v. To obtain for use by payment or lease.
           She took a condo at the beach for the summer.
           He took a full-page ad in the Times.
     30. v.          To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
                   They took two magazines.
                   I used to take The Sunday Times.
     31. v. To consume.
     32. v.          To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
                   take two of these and call me in the morning
                   take the blue pill
                   I take aspirin every day to thin my blood.
     33. v.          To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
                   The general took dinner at seven o'clock.
     34. v. To experience, undergo, or endure.
     35. v.          To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
                   take sun-baths
                   take a shower
                   She made the decision to take chemotherapy.
     36. v.          To experience or feel.
                   She takes pride in her work.
counsel
     1. n. The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.
     2. n. Exercise of judgment; prudence.
     3. n. Advice; guidance.
     4. n. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
     5. n. (obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
     6. n. A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
     7. v. To give advice, especially professional advice, to (somebody).
           The lawyer counselled his client to remain silent.
           Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals counsel clients.
     8. v. To recommend (a course of action).
           I would counsel prudence in this matter.
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