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. | |