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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
fatten
1. v. (intransitive) To become fatter.
He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
2. v. To cause to be fatter.
We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
3. v. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.
to fatten land
land
1. n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Most insects live on land.
2. n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
3. n. A country or region.
They come from a faraway land.
4. n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes
6. n. A general country, state, or territory.
He moved from his home to settle in a faraway land.
7. n. (often, in combination) realm, domain.
I'm going to Disneyland.
Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
8. n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
9. n. (Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
He got an awful land when the police arrived.
10. n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
11. n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
12. n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
13. n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
14. n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
15. n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
16. n. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
17. v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
The plane is about to land.
18. v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
19. v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
20. v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
21. v. To bring to land.
It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
Use the net to land the fish.
22. v. To acquire; to secure.
23. v. To deliver.
24. adj. Of or relating to land.
25. adj. Residing or growing on land.
26. n. lant; urine

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