| 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 | |
| undergo |
| 1. v. (transitive, obsolete) To go or move under or beneath. | |
| 2. v. To experience; to pass through a phase. | |
| The project is undergoing great changes. | |
| 3. v. To suffer or endure; bear with. | |
| The victim underwent great trauma. | |
| She had to undergo surgery because of her broken leg. | |
| digestion |
| 1. n. The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body. | |
| 2. n. The result of this process. | |
| 3. n. The ability to use this process. | |
| 4. n. The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms. | |
| 5. n. The assimilation and understanding of ideas. | |
| 6. n. (medicine, archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration. | |
| 7. n. (chemistry) Dissolution of a sample into a solution by means of adding acid and heat. | |
| 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 | |
| food |
| 1. n. Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. | |
| The innkeeper brought them food and drink. | |
| 2. n. A foodstuff. | |
| 3. n. (figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains. | |
| The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought. | |
| Mozart and Bach are food for my soul. | |
| digests |
| 1. n. plural of digest | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of digest | |
| digest |
| 1. v. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. | |
| to digest laws | |
| 2. v. To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blo | |
| 3. v. To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. | |
| 4. v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion. | |
| I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest. | |
| 7. v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. | |
| 8. v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature. | |
| 10. v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief) | |
| 11. n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles | |
| 12. n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws. | |
| Comyn's Digest | |
| the United States Digest | |
| 13. n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings. | |
| Reader's Digest is published monthly. | |
| The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week. | |
| 14. n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message. | |
| well |
| 1. adv. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily. | |
| He does his job well. | |
| 2. adv. (manner) Completely, fully. | |
| a well done steak | |
| We’re well beat now. | |
| 3. adv. (degree) To a significant degree. | |
| That author is well known. | |
| 4. adv. (degree, British, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier). | |
| 5. adv. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously. | |
| 6. adj. In good health. | |
| I had been sick, but now I'm well. | |
| 7. adj. (hypercorrect) Good, content. | |
| “How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!” | |
| 8. adj. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised. | |
| 9. interj. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation. | |
| “The car is broken.” “Well, we could walk to the movies instead.” | |
| “I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.” | |
| “I forgot to pack the tent! Well, I guess we're sleeping under the stars tonight.” | |
| 10. interj. An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled. | |
| Well, well, well, what do we have here? | |
| 11. interj. An exclamation of indignance. | |
| Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother! | |
| 12. interj. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something. | |
| It was a bit... well... too loud. | |
| 13. interj. Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause. | |
| “So what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early.” | |
| 14. interj. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting | |
| Well lads. How's things? | |
| 15. n. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. | |
| 16. n. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring. | |
| 17. n. A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects. | |
| Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk. | |
| 18. n. (figurative) A source of supply. | |
| 19. n. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate. | |
| 20. n. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat. | |
| 21. n. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported | |
| 22. n. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water. | |
| 23. n. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. | |
| 24. n. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. | |
| 25. n. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom. | |
| 26. n. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. | |
| 27. n. A well drink. | |
| They're having a special tonight: $1 wells. | |
| 28. n. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall. | |
| 29. n. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes. | |
| 30. v. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. | |
| 31. v. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface. | |
| Her eyes welled with tears. | |
| well |
| 1. adv. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily. | |
| He does his job well. | |
| 2. adv. (manner) Completely, fully. | |
| a well done steak | |
| We’re well beat now. | |
| 3. adv. (degree) To a significant degree. | |
| That author is well known. | |
| 4. adv. (degree, British, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier). | |
| 5. adv. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously. | |
| 6. adj. In good health. | |
| I had been sick, but now I'm well. | |
| 7. adj. (hypercorrect) Good, content. | |
| “How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!” | |
| 8. adj. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised. | |
| 9. interj. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation. | |
| “The car is broken.” “Well, we could walk to the movies instead.” | |
| “I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.” | |
| “I forgot to pack the tent! Well, I guess we're sleeping under the stars tonight.” | |
| 10. interj. An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled. | |
| Well, well, well, what do we have here? | |
| 11. interj. An exclamation of indignance. | |
| Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother! | |
| 12. interj. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something. | |
| It was a bit... well... too loud. | |
| 13. interj. Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause. | |
| “So what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early.” | |
| 14. interj. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting | |
| Well lads. How's things? | |
| 15. n. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. | |
| 16. n. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring. | |
| 17. n. A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects. | |
| Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk. | |
| 18. n. (figurative) A source of supply. | |
| 19. n. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate. | |
| 20. n. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat. | |
| 21. n. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported | |
| 22. n. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water. | |
| 23. n. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. | |
| 24. n. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. | |
| 25. n. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom. | |
| 26. n. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. | |
| 27. n. A well drink. | |
| They're having a special tonight: $1 wells. | |
| 28. n. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall. | |
| 29. n. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes. | |
| 30. v. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. | |
| 31. v. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface. | |
| Her eyes welled with tears. | |
| 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. | |
| ill |
| 1. adj. (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people). | |
| 2. adj. (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy. | |
| 3. adj. Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. | |
| He suffered from ill treatment. | |
| 4. adj. Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard. | |
| ill manners; ill will | |
| 5. adj. Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick. | |
| I've been ill with the flu for the past few days. | |
| 6. adj. Having an urge to vomit. | |
| Seeing those pictures made me ill. | |
| 7. adj. (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. | |
| 8. adj. (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be. | |
| That band was ill. | |
| 9. adv. Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly. | |
| 10. n. (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity. | |
| Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear. | |
| 11. n. Harm or injury. | |
| I wouldn't want you to do me ill. | |
| 12. n. Evil; moral wrongfulness. | |
| 13. n. A physical ailment; an illness. | |
| I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills. | |
| 14. n. (US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine. | |
