| 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 | |
| evoke |
| 1. v. To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | |
| 2. v. To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | |
| Being here evokes long forgotten memories. | |
| Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me. | |
| The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century. | |
| educe |
| 1. v. To draw out or bring out; elicit or evoke. | |
| 2. v. To infer or deduce. | |
| 3. n. inference | |
| emotions |
| 1. n. plural of emotion | |
| 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 | |
| responses |
| 1. n. plural of response | |
| response |
| 1. n. An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply. | |
| 2. n. The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question. | |
| 3. n. An oracular answer. | |
| 4. n. (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant. | |
| 5. n. (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory. | |
| 6. n. A reply to an objection in formal disputation. | |
| 7. n. An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL. | |
| 8. n. A reaction to a stimulus or provocation. | |
| etc |
| 1. adv. alternative form of etc. | |
