| 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 | |
| grip |
| 1. v. To take hold of, particularly with the hand. | |
| That suitcase is heavy, so grip the handle firmly. | |
| The glue will begin to grip within five minutes. | |
| After a few slips, the tires gripped the pavement. | |
| 2. v. To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense. | |
| He grips me. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief. | |
| Let’s grip (get a coffee, hang, take a break, see a movie, etc.) | |
| 4. v. To trench; to drain. | |
| 5. n. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand. | |
| It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands. | |
| The ball will move differently depending on the grip used when throwing it. | |
| 6. n. A handle or other place to grip. | |
| the grip of a sword | |
| There are several good grips on the northern face of this rock. | |
| 7. n. (computing, GUI) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved. | |
| 8. n. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set. | |
| 9. n. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway). | |
| 10. n. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something. | |
| That is a grip of cheese. | |
| She has the grip. | |
| 11. n. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack. | |
| 12. n. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable. | |
| He gave me a grip. | |
| 13. n. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person. | |
| You're a real grip. | |
| 14. n. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful. | |
| I need to get a grip of nails for my project. | |
| 15. n. (figurative) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast. | |
| in the grip of a blackmailer | |
| 16. n. A device for grasping or holding fast to something. | |
| 17. n. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain. | |
| 18. n. (obsolete) The griffin. | |
| 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. | |
| grasp |
| 1. v. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand. | |
| 2. v. To understand. | |
| I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity. | |
| 3. v. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance. | |
| 4. n. (sometimes figurative) Grip. | |
| 5. n. Understanding. | |
| 6. n. That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability. | |
| The goal is within my grasp. | |
| tightly |
| 1. adv. In a tight manner. | |
| tightly clenched fingers | |
