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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
separate
1. adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
2. adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
3. v. To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
Separate the articles from the headings.
4. v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
5. v. To cause (things or people) to be separate.
If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
6. v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
7. v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
8. n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
matching
1. adj. The same as another; sharing the same design.
A matching set of furniture
2. v. present participle of match
3. n. (graph theory) A set of independent edges in a given graph, i.e. a set of edges which do not intersect: so-called because pairs of vertices are "matched" to each other one-to-one.
match
1. n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
2. n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
3. n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
He knew he had met his match.
4. n. A marriage.
5. n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
6. n. Suitability.
7. n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
8. n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
The carpet and curtains are a match.
9. n. An agreement or compact.
10. n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts o
11. v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
12. v. To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
His interests didn't match her interests.
13. v. To make a successful match or pairing.
They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
14. v. To equal or exceed in achievement.
She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
15. v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
16. v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
to match boards
17. n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
pair
1. n. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.
2. n. Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
Spouses should make a great pair.
3. n. (Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only))
a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans
4. n. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.
5. n. (cards) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
6. n. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
7. n. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play
They turned a pair to end the fifth.
8. n. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.
9. n. (slang) A pair of breasts
She's got a gorgeous pair.
10. n. (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
11. n. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
There were two pairs on the final vote.
12. n. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
13. n. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, s
14. v. To group into sets of two.
The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
15. v. To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
16. v. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
17. v. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
18. v. (computing) to form wireless connection between to devices
19. v. (obsolete) To impair.

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