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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
Enter
1. n. The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.
2. n. A stroke of the Enter key.
3. v. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked.
4. v. To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
to enter a knife into a piece of wood; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
5. v. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
My twelve-year-old son will be entering his teens next year. She had planned to enter the legal profession.
6. v. To type (something) into a computer; to input.
Enter your user name and password.
7. v. To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
8. v. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
9. v. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
10. v. (legal) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
11. v. (transitive, legal) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order.
to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment
12. v. to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry
13. v. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.
14. v. to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
entered according to act of Congress
15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
16. n. (computing) alternative spelling of Enter the computer key
17. n. (computing) alternative spelling of Enter a stroke of the computer key
into
1. prep. Going inside (of).
Mary danced into the house.
2. prep. Going to a geographic region.
We left the house and walked into the street.
The plane flew into the open air.
3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence.
The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance).
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
5. prep. After the start of.
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you!
7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online)
Five into three is fifteen.
9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
Three into two won't go.
24 goes into 48 how many times?
10. prep. Investigating the subject (of).
Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
argument
1. n. A fact or statement used to support a proposition;a reason.
2. n. A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
3. n. A process of reasoning.
4. n. (philosophy, logic) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
5. n. (mathematics) The independent variable of a function.
6. n. (mathematics) The phase of a complex number.
7. n. (programming) A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.
Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.
8. n. (programming) A parameter in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
9. n. (linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
10. n. (astronomy) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.
The altitude is the argument of the refraction.
11. n. The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
12. n. Matter for question; business in hand.
13. v. To put forward as an argument; to argue.
conflict
1. n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
The conflict between the government and the rebels began three years ago.
2. n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
I wanted to attend the meeting but there's a conflict in my schedule that day.
3. v. (intransitive)To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
4. v. (intransitive)To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
It appears that our schedules conflict.
dispute
1. n. an argument or disagreement, a failure to agree
2. n. verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate
3. v. (intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another
4. v. to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
5. v. to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
to dispute assertions or arguments
6. v. to strive or contend about; to contest
7. v. (obsolete) to struggle against; to resist
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.
fight
1. v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
A wounded animal will fight like a maniac, relentless, savage and murderous.
2. v. (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.
The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour.
3. v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
He fought for the Democrats in the last election.
4. v. To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
The battle was fought just over that hill.
5. v. To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II.
6. v. To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
The government pledged to fight corruption.
7. v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
to fight cocks; to fight one's ship
8. n. An occasion of fighting.
One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight.
9. n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
10. n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
Watch your language, are you looking for a fight?
11. n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
I'm going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night.
12. n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
I'll put up a fight to save this company.
13. n. The will or ability to fight.
That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him.
14. n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

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