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 | |
seize |
1. v. To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture. | |
2. v. To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance). | |
3. v. To take possession of (by force, law etc.). | |
to seize smuggled goods | |
to seize a ship after libeling | |
4. v. To have a sudden and powerful effect upon. | |
a panic seized the crowd | |
a fever seized him | |
5. v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line. | |
to seize two fish-hooks back to back | |
to seize or stop one rope on to another | |
6. v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon). | |
to seize on the neck of a horse | |
8. v. (intransitive) To have a seizure. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up. | |
Rust caused the engine to seize, never to run again. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body. | |
As |
1. n. plural of A | |
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
You’re not as tall as I am. | |
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
Do as I say! | |
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
As you wish, my lord! | |
6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
As I came in, she flew. | |
7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
As it’s too late, I quit. | |
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
You are not as tall as me. | |
They're big as houses. | |
17. prep. In the role of. | |
What is your opinion as a parent? | |
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
20. n. plural of a | |
though |
1. adv. (conjunctive) Despite that; however. | |
I will do it, though. | |
2. adv. (degree) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed. | |
"Man, it's hot in here." — "Isn't it, though?". | |
3. conj. Despite the fact that; although. | |
Though it’s risky, it’s worth taking the chance. | |
4. conj. (archaic) If, that, even if. | |
We shall be not sorry though the man die tonight. | |
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 | |
claws |
1. n. plural of claw | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of claw | |
claw |
1. n. A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird. | |
2. n. A foot equipped with such. | |
3. n. The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod. | |
4. n. A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting. | |
5. n. (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink. | |
6. n. (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand. | |
7. v. To scratch or to tear at. | |
8. v. To use the claws to seize, to grip. | |
9. v. To use the claws to climb. | |
10. v. (juggling) To perform a claw catch. | |
11. v. To move with one's fingertips. | |
12. v. (obsolete) To relieve uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching; hence, to humor or flatter, to court someone. | |
13. v. (obsolete) To rail at; to scold. | |