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 | |
turn |
1. v. to make a non-linear physical movement.: | |
2. v. (intransitive) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself. | |
the Earth turns; turn on the spot | |
3. v. To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation. | |
Turn the knob clockwise. | |
4. v. (intransitive) to change one's direction of travel. | |
She turned right at the corner. | |
5. v. (intransitive, figuratively) to change the course of. | |
6. v. To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe. | |
She turned the table legs with care and precision. | |
7. v. (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt. | |
8. v. To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds. | |
turn the bed covers; turn the pages | |
9. v. (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material. | |
turn to page twenty; turn through the book | |
10. v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. | |
11. v. (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. | |
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12. v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude. | |
13. v. (copulative) To become (begin to be). | |
The leaves turn brown in autumn. When I asked him for the money, he turned nasty. | |
14. v. To change the color of the leaves in the autumn. | |
The hillside behind our house isn't generally much to look at, but once all the trees turn it's gorgeous. | |
15. v. To change fundamentally; to metamorphose. | |
Midas made everything turn to gold. He turned into a monster every full moon. | |
16. v. # (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad. | |
# This milk has turned; it smells awful. | |
17. v. # To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle. | |
# to turn cider or wine | |
18. v. To reach a certain age. | |
Charlie turns six on September 29. | |
19. v. To hinge; to depend. | |
The decision turns on a single fact. | |
20. v. To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated. | |
The prisoners turned on the warden. | |
21. v. To change personal condition. | |
22. v. # (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa. | |
23. v. # To become giddy; said of the head or brain. | |
24. v. # To sicken; to nauseate. | |
# The sight turned my stomach. | |
25. v. # To be nauseated; said of the stomach. | |
26. v. #: | |
27. v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. | |
28. v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete. | |
They say they can turn the parts in two days. | |
29. v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. | |
30. v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe. | |
Ivory turns well. | |
31. v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. | |
32. v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted. | |
33. v. (archaic) To translate. | |
to turn the Iliad | |
34. v. (transitive, role-playing games) To magically or divinely attack undead. | |
35. n. A change of direction or orientation. | |
Give the handle a turn, then pull it. | |
36. n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation. | |
37. n. (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement. | |
38. n. A single loop of a coil. | |
39. n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others. | |
They took turns playing with the new toy. | |
40. n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule. | |
I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes. | |
41. n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players. | |
42. n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again. | |
43. n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project. | |
They quote a three-day turn on parts like those. | |
44. n. A fit or a period of giddiness. | |
I've had a funny turn. | |
45. n. A change in temperament or circumstance. | |
She took a turn for the worse. | |
46. n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight). | |
47. n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em. | |
48. n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em. | |
49. n. A deed done to another. | |
One good turn deserves another. | |
I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunitynb.... | |
50. n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object. | |
51. n. Character; personality; nature. | |
52. n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. | |
53. n. (circus, theatre, especially, physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine. | |
into |
1. prep. Going inside (of). | |
Mary danced into the house. | |
2. prep. Going to a geographic region. | |
We left the house and walked into the street. | |
The plane flew into the open air. | |
3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence. | |
The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall | |
4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance). | |
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf! | |
5. prep. After the start of. | |
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board. | |
6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to. | |
She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you! | |
7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values. | |
The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself. | |
8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online) | |
Five into three is fifteen. | |
9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes". | |
Three into two won't go. | |
24 goes into 48 how many times? | |
10. prep. Investigating the subject (of). | |
Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees. | |
coin |
1. n. (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle. | |
2. n. A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip). | |
3. n. (figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense. | |
4. n. (slang) money in general, not limited to coins | |
She spent some serious coin on that car! | |
5. n. One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit. | |
6. n. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. | |
7. n. A small circular slice of food. | |
8. v. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture. | |
to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal | |
9. v. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate. | |
Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined. | |
10. v. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. | |
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. | |
create |
1. v. To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:) | |
You can create the color orange by mixing yellow and red. | |
2. v. (especially, of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used. | |
3. v. To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape | |
Couturiers create exclusive garments for an affluent clientele. | |
4. v. To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion. | |
crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties | |
A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam. | |
5. v. To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute. | |
Henry VIII created him a Duke. Last month, the queen created two barons. | |
Under the concordate with Belgium, at least one Belgian clergyman must be created cardinal; by tradition, every archbishop of Mechelen is thus created a cardinal. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative. | |
Children usually enjoy creating, never mind if it is of any use! | |
7. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout. | |
8. adj. (obsolete) Created, resulting from creation. | |
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. | |
new |
1. adj. Recently made, or created. | |
This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album. | |
2. adj. Additional; recently discovered. | |
We turned up some new evidence from the old files. | |
3. adj. Current or later, as opposed to former. | |
My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then. | |
4. adj. Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing. | |
New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street. | |
5. adj. In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used. | |
Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one? | |
6. adj. Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed. | |
That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one. I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep. After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes. | |
7. adj. Newborn. | |
My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild. | |
8. adj. Of recent origin; having taken place recently. | |
I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new. Did you see the new King Lear at the theatre? | |
9. adj. Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known. | |
The idea was new to me. I need to meet new people. | |
10. adj. Recently arrived or appeared. | |
Have you met the new guy in town? He is the new kid at school. | |
11. adj. Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task. | |
Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time. I'm new at this business. | |
12. adj. (of a period of time) Next; about to begin or recently begun. | |
We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade. | |
13. adj. (vegetables) The first of the season. | |
14. adv. Newly (especially in composition). | |
new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown | |
15. adv. As new; from scratch. | |
They are scraping the site clean to build new. | |
16. n. Things that are new. | |
Out with the old, in with the new. | |
17. n. (Australia) A kind of light beer. | |
18. n. See also news. | |
19. v. (obsolete) To make new; to recreate; to renew. | |
trope |
1. n. (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy | |
2. n. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor. | |
3. n. (geometry) Mathematical senses. | |
4. n. A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic. | |
5. n. (archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface. | |
6. n. (music) Musical senses. | |
7. n. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music. | |
8. n. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique. | |
9. n. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it. | |
10. n. (Roman Catholicism) A phrase or verse added to the Mass when sung by a choir. | |
11. n. (philosophy) Philosophical senses. | |
12. n. (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism. | |
13. n. (metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal. | |
14. v. To use, or embellish something with, a trope. | |
15. v. Senses relating chiefly to art or literature. | |
16. v. To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif. | |
17. v. To turn into, coin, or create a new trope. | |
18. v. To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes. | |