| 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 | |
| clutch |
| 1. v. To seize, as though with claws. | |
| to clutch power | |
| 2. v. To grip or grasp tightly. | |
| She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building. | |
| 3. n. The claw of a predatory animal or bird. | |
| 4. n. (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil. | |
| 5. n. A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car. | |
| 6. n. The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission. | |
| 7. n. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle. | |
| 8. n. A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle. | |
| 9. n. (US) An important or critical situation. | |
| 10. adj. (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations. | |
| 11. n. A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs. | |
| 12. n. A group or bunch (of people or things). | |
| 13. v. To hatch. | |
| Power |
| 1. n. A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up. | |
| 2. n. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | |
| 3. n. Ability to affect or influence. | |
| 4. n. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction). | |
| 5. n. (metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government. | |
| 6. n. (metonymy) An influential nation, company, or other such body. | |
| 7. n. (physical) Effectiveness. | |
| 8. n. Physical force or strength. | |
| He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium. | |
| 9. n. Electricity or a supply of electricity. | |
| After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days. | |
| 10. n. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy. | |
| 11. n. A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror. | |
| We need a microscope with higher power. | |
| 12. n. Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw). | |
| the mechanical powers | |
| 13. n. mathematics | |
| 14. n. A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion):x^n, read as "x to the power ofn" or the like, is called a power and denotes the produc | |
| 15. n. (set theory) Cardinality. | |
| 16. n. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true. | |
| 17. n. (biblical, in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme. | |
| 18. v. To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). | |
| This CD player is powered by batteries. | |
| 19. v. To hit or kick something forcefully. | |
| 20. v. To enable or provide the impetus for. | |
| 21. adj. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive. | |
