| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| laws |
| 1. n. plural of law | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of law | |
| law |
| 1. n. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. | |
| the courts interpret the law; entrapment is against the law | |
| 2. n. The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic. | |
| property law; commercial hunting and fishing law | |
| 3. n. Common law, as contrasted with equity. | |
| 4. n. A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way. | |
| There is a law against importing wallabies. A new law forbids driving on that road. The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it. | |
| 5. n. (more generally) (A rule, such as:) | |
| 6. n. Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores). | |
| "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow. the law of self-preservation | |
| 7. n. A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art. | |
| the laws of playwriting and poetry | |
| 8. n. A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions | |
| the laws of thermodynamics | |
| Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction. This is one of several laws derived from | |
| 9. n. (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule. | |
| Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation. | |
| 10. n. Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences. | |
| the law of scarcity; the law of supply and demand | |
| 11. n. (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC. | |
| 12. n. The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules. | |
| They worked to maintain law and order. It was a territory without law, marked by violence. | |
| 13. n. (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers). | |
| Here comes the law — run! | |
| 14. n. The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc). | |
| He is studying for a career in law. She has practiced law in New York for twenty years. | |
| 15. n. Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules. | |
| She went to university to study law. | |
| 16. n. Litigation, legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc). | |
| They were quick to go to law. | |
| 17. n. (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair. | |
| 18. n. (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos. | |
| 19. n. (legal, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law)", "(m", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".) | |
| 20. v. (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law. | |
| 21. v. (ambitransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate. | |
| 22. v. (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; govern. | |
| 23. v. (informal) To enforce the law. | |
| 24. v. To subject to legal restrictions. | |
| 25. n. (obsolete) A tumulus of stones. | |
| 26. n. (Scottish, and Northern England, archaic) A hill. | |
| 27. interj. (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks. | |
