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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
cut
     1. adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
     2. adj. Reduced.
           The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
           Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
     3. adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
           My favourite song had been cut from the show.
     4. adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
     5. adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
     6. adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
     7. adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation
     8. adj. (Australia, NZ, slang) Emotionally hurt.
     9. adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
     10. adj. Removed from a team roster.
     11. adj. (NZ) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
     12. n. An opening resulting from cutting.
           Look at this cut on my finger!
     13. n. The act of cutting.
           He made a fine cut with his sword.
     14. n. The result of cutting.
           a smooth or clear cut
     15. n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
           a cut for a railroad
     16. n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river
     17. n. A share or portion.
           The lawyer took a cut of the profits.
     18. n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
     19. n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
     20. n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
     21. n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entert
     22. n. (theatre) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
           The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.
     23. n. (cinema) A particular version or edit of a film.
     24. n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
           The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
     25. n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
           I like the cut of that suit.
     26. n. A slab, especially of meat.
           That’s our finest cut of meat.
     27. n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
     28. n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
     29. n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
           The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
     30. n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
     31. n. A haircut.
     32. n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
     33. n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
     34. n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
           a book illustrated with fine cuts
     35. n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
     36. n. (slang) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
     37. n. A skein of yarn.
     38. n. (slang) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
           Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.
     39. n. (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
     40. n. (bodybuilding) A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
     41. v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
     42. v.          To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
     43. v.          To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
                   Would you please cut the cake?
     44. v.          To form or shape by cutting.
                   I have three diamonds to cut today.
     45. v.          (slang) To wound with a knife.
     46. v.          (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
                    The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
     47. v.          To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
     48. v.          To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
                   Sarcasm cuts to the quick.
     49. v.          To castrate or geld.
                   to cut a horse
     50. v.          To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
     51. v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
     52. v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
     53. v.          To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
                   Travis was cut from the team.
     54. v.          To abridge a piece of printed or written work.
     55. v.          To reduce, especially intentionally.
                   They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
     56. v.          To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
                   I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
     57. v.          To ignore as a social snub.
                   After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
     58. v. (intransitive, cinema, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
           After the actors read their lines, the director yelled, "Cut!".
     59. v. (intransitive, cinema) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
           The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
     60. v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
     61. v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
           Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
     62. v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
           One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
     63. v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
           This road cuts right through downtown.
     64. v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
     65. v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
           The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
     66. v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
           If you cut then I'll deal.
     67. v. (transitive, slang) To write.
           cut orders;  cut a check
     68. v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
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.
shape
     1. n. The status or condition of something
           The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
     2. n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
           The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
           We exercise to keep in good physical shape.
     3. n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
           He cut a square shape out of the cake.
           What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
     4. n. Form; formation.
     5. n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
     6. n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
     7. n. (cookery, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
     8. n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
     9. v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
           Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.
     10. v. To give something a shape and definition.
           Shape the dough into a pretzel.   For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.
     11. v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
     12. v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
     13. v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
     14. v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
wood
     1. n. The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
           This table is made of wood.
           There was lots of wood on the beach.
     2. n. The wood of a particular species of tree.
           Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.
     3. n. A forested or wooded area.
           He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.
     4. n. Firewood.
           We need more wood for the fire.
     5. n. (golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
     6. n. (music) A woodwind instrument.
     7. n. (slang) An erection of the penis.
           That girl at the strip club gave me wood.
     8. n. (chess, slang) Chess pieces.
     9. v. To cover or plant with trees.
     10. v. (reflexive, intransitive) To hide behind trees.
     11. v. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
           to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
     12. v. (intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.
     13. adj. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
     14. n. (US, sometimes offensive chiefly prison slang) A peckerwood.
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
a
     1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
           There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
     2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
           I've seen it happen a hundred times.
     3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
           We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
     4. art. The same; one.
           We are of a mind on matters of morals.
     5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
           A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
           He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
     6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
     7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
           The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
     8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
           Stand a tiptoe.
     9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
           Torn a pieces.
     10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
           I brush my teeth twice a day.
     11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
     12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
           A God’s name.
     13. prep. To do with status; In.
           King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
             To set the people a worke.
     14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
           1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
             The times, they are a-changin'.
     15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
           1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
             Jacob, when he was a dying
     16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
     17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
           I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
     18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
     19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
     20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
           The name of John a Gaunt.
     21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
     22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
knife
     1. n. A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be p
     2. n. A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.
     3. n. Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
     4. v. To cut with a knife.
     5. v. To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
     6. v. (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
     7. v. To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
     8. v. To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut
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