| 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 | |
| become |
| 1. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place). | |
| 2. v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise. | |
| What became of him after he was let go? | |
| It hath becomen so that many a man had to sterve. | |
| 3. v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into. | |
| She became a doctor when she was 25. | |
| The weather will become cold after the sun goes down. | |
| 4. v. To be proper for; to beseem. | |
| 5. v. Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone). | |
| That dress really becomes you. | |
| undead |
| 1. adj. Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life. | |
| 2. adj. (horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living. | |
| 3. n. (horror fiction) Those creatures which are undead; that is, dead yet still animate. | |
| In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some nubile skinny-dipping teenagers. | |
| 4. n. (horror fiction) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate. | |
