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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
twist
1. n. A twisting force.
2. n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
3. n. The form given in twisting.
4. n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
5. n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
6. n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
7. n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
8. n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
9. n. (authorship) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
10. n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist (dance)
11. n. A rotation of the body when diving.
12. n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
13. n. (obsolete) A twig.
14. n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
15. n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
16. n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
Damascus twist
17. n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
18. n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
19. n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
a twist toward fanaticism
20. v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
21. v. To join together by twining one part around another.
22. v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
23. v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
24. v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
25. v. To turn a knob etc.
26. v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
27. v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
28. v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
29. v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
30. v. To cause to rotate.
31. v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
32. v. To coax.
33. v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
discomfort
1. n. Mental or bodily distress.
2. n. Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
3. v. To cause annoyance or distress to.
4. v. (obsolete) To discourage; to deject.
especially
1. adv. (manner) In a special manner; specially.
2. adv. (focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.
3. adv. (focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something.
Invite them all, especially Molly.
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
shame
1. n. Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
When I realized that I had hurt my friend, I felt deep shame.
The teenager couldn’t bear the shame of introducing his parents.
2. n. Something to regret.
It was a shame not to see the show after driving all that way.
3. n. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
4. n. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
5. n. That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
6. interj. A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
7. interj. (South Africa) Expressing sympathy.
Shame, you poor thing, you must be cold!
8. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To feel shame, be ashamed.
9. v. To cause to feel shame.
I was shamed by the teacher's public disapproval.
10. v. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
11. v. (obsolete) To mock at; to deride.
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.
embarrassment
1. n. A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
2. n. A state of confusion arising from hesitation or difficulty in choosing.
3. n. A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
4. n. A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements.
5. n. (medical) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
6. n. (dated) Difficulty in financial matters; poverty.

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