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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
hatch
     1. n. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
     2. n. A trapdoor.
     3. n. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
           The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.
     4. n. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
     5. n. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
     6. n. (slang) A gullet.
     7. n. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
     8. n. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
     9. n. (Scotland) A bedstead.
     10. n. (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
     11. v. To close with a hatch or hatches.
     12. v. (intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
     13. v. (intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
     14. v. To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
     15. v. To devise.
     16. n. The act of hatching.
     17. n. Development; disclosure; discovery.
     18. n. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
           These pullets are from an April hatch.
     19. n. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
     20. n. (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched.".
     21. v. To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
     22. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
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