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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
catch
1. n. The act of seizing or capturing.
The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.
2. n. The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
The player made an impressive catch.
Nice catch!
3. n. The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
Good catch. I never would have remembered that.
4. n. The game of catching a ball.
The kids love to play catch.
5. n. A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
Did you see his latest catch?
He's a good catch.
6. n. Something which is captured or caught. (jump, quantity captured, s)
The fishermen took pictures of their catch.
The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.
7. n. A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.
8. n. A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.
9. n. (sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch?
Be careful, that's a catch question.
10. n. A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.
11. n. A fragment of music or poetry.
12. n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
13. n. (agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
14. n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
15. n. (music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
16. n. (music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
17. n. (cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
18. n. (cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
19. n. (rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
20. n. (phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
21. n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
22. n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
23. v. To capture, overtake.:
24. v. To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
I hope I catch a fish. He ran but we caught him at the exit. The police caught the robber at a nearby casino.
25. v. To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
26. v. (transitive figuratively, dated) To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
27. v. To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
If he catches you on the chin, you'll be on the mat.
28. v. To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
If you leave now you might catch him. I would love to have dinner but I have to catch a plane.
29. v. To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
He was caught on video robbing the bank. He was caught in the act of stealing a biscuit.
30. v. To travel by means of.
catch the bus
31. v. (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
32. v. To seize hold of.:
33. v. (transitive, dated) To grab, seize, take hold of.
I caught her by the arm and turned her to face me.
34. v. To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
I have to stop for a moment and catch my breath. I caught some Z's on the train.
35. v. To grip or entangle.
My leg was caught in a tree-root.
36. v. (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
Be careful your dress doesn't catch on that knob. His voice caught when he came to his father's name.
37. v. (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
Push it in until it catches. The engine finally caught and roared to life.
38. v. To have something be held back or impeded.
I caught my heel on the threshold.
39. v. (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
He caught at the railing as he fell.
40. v. Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
The fire spread slowly until it caught the eaves of the barn.
41. v. (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
42. v. (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
The seeds caught and grew.
43. v. (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
44. v. (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
When the program catches an exception, this is recorded in the log file.
45. v. To intercept.:
46. v. To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
I will throw you the ball, and you catch it. Watch me catch this raisin in my mouth.
47. v. (transitive, now rare) To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs.
48. v. (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
Townsend hit 29 before he was caught by Wilson.
49. v. (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
He caught the last three innings.
50. v. To receive (by being in the way).:
51. v. To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
You're going to catch a beating if they find out.
52. v. To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
The sunlight caught the leaves and the trees turned to gold. Her hair was caught by the light breeze.
53. v. To be infected by (an illness).
Everyone seems to be catching the flu this week.
54. v. (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
55. v. (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
The bucket catches water from the downspout. The trees caught quickly in the dry wind.
56. v. To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
She finally caught the mood of the occasion.
57. v. To be hit by something.
He caught a bullet in the back of the head last year.
58. v. (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
59. v. (intransitive,) To get pregnant.
Well, if you didn't catch this time, we'll have more fun trying again until you do.
60. v. To take in with one's senses or intellect.:
61. v. To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
hold
1. v. To grasp or grip.
Hold the pencil like this.
2. v. To contain or store.
This package holds six bottles.
3. v. To maintain or keep to a position or state.:
4. v. To have and keep possession of something.
Hold my coat for me. The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs.
5. v. To reserve.
Hold a table for us at 7:00.
6. v. To cause to wait or delay.
Hold the elevator.
7. v. To detain.
Hold the suspect in this cell.
8. v. (intransitive) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
to hold true; The proposition holds.
9. v. To keep oneself in a particular state.
to hold firm; to hold opinions
10. v. To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
11. v. To bear, carry, or manage.
He holds himself proudly erect. Hold your head high.
12. v. (intransitive, mostly, imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
13. v. (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
14. v. To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
to hold one's bladder; to hold one's breath
15. v. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.:
16. v. To maintain, to consider, to opine.
17. v. To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
He was held responsible for the actions of those under his command. I'll hold him to that promise.
18. v. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
19. v. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
20. v. (archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
21. v. (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
22. v. To take place, to occur.
23. v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month.
24. v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
25. n. A grasp or grip.
Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
26. n. A place where animals are held for safety
27. n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book.
28. n. Something reserved or kept.
We have a hold here for you.
29. n. Power over someone or something.
30. n. The ability to persist.
31. n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
32. n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.
33. n. (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
34. n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
35. n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
36. n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
37. n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
38. n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
39. n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
40. n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
41. n. (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
42. adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
43. n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).
Put that in the hold.

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