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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 | |
pull |
1. n. An act of pulling (applying force) | |
He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out. | |
2. n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source | |
The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant. | |
iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet | |
She took a pull on her cigarette. | |
3. n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope | |
a zipper pull | |
4. n. (slang) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing. | |
In weights the favourite had the pull. | |
5. n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star) | |
6. n. (Internet) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology | |
7. n. A journey made by rowing | |
8. n. (dated) A contest; a struggle. | |
a wrestling pull | |
9. n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered. | |
10. n. (slang) The act of drinking. | |
to take a pull at a mug of beer | |
11. n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. | |
12. n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path. | |
13. v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force. | |
When I give the signal, pull the rope. | |
You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle. | |
14. v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck. | |
to pull fruit from a tree; to pull flax; to pull a finch | |
15. v. To attract or net; to pull in. | |
16. v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend. | |
17. v. (ambitransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one. | |
I pulled at the club last night. | |
He's pulled that bird over there. | |
18. v. To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability. | |
Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves. | |
19. v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform. | |
He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14. | |
You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that. | |
20. v. To retrieve or generate for use. | |
I'll have to pull a part number for that. | |
21. v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To row. | |
23. v. To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.). | |
24. v. (video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target. | |
25. v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport. | |
26. v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning. | |
The favourite was pulled. | |
27. v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever. | |
28. v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.) | |
29. v. (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source. | |
Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint. | |
30. v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave. | |
31. interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched. | |
roughly |
1. adv. In a rough manner. | |
2. adv. Unevenly | |
3. adv. Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount; approximately. | |
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. | |
hastily |
1. adv. In a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly. | |
2. adv. (obsolete) Soon, shortly. | |
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 | |
plunder |
1. v. To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack. | |
The mercenaries plundered the small town. | |
The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar. | |
2. v. To take (goods) by pillage. | |
The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid. | |
“Now to plunder, mateys!” screamed a buccaneer, to cries of “Arrgh!” and “Aye!” all around. | |
4. v. To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully. | |
The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste. | |
5. v. To take unexpectedly. | |
6. n. An instance of plundering. | |
7. n. The loot attained by plundering. | |
The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it. | |
(seeSynonyms, booty, sense=1) | |
8. n. (slang) Baggage; luggage. | |
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 | |
spoil |
1. v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour. | |
2. v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil. | |
3. v. (ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). | |
4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal. | |
5. v. To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use. | |
6. v. To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. | |
7. v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay. | |
Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil. | |
8. v. To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it. | |
9. v. To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time. | |
10. n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim. | |
11. n. Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. | |
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 | |
tear |
1. v. To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | |
He tore his coat on the nail. | |
2. v. To injure as if by pulling apart. | |
He has a torn ligament. | |
He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident. | |
3. v. To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional. | |
He was torn by conflicting emotions. | |
4. v. To make (an opening) with force or energy. | |
A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite. | |
His boss will tear him a new one when he finds out. | |
The artillery tore a gap in the line. | |
5. v. (transitive, often, with off, or out) To remove by tearing. | |
Tear the coupon out of the newspaper. | |
6. v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish | |
The slums were torn down to make way for the new development. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally. | |
My dress has torn. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence. | |
He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour. | |
The tornado lingered, tearing through town, leaving nothing upright. | |
He tore into the backlog of complaints. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force. | |
The chain shot tore into the approaching line of infantry. | |
10. n. A hole or break caused by tearing. | |
A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam. | |
11. n. (slang) A rampage. | |
to go on a tear | |
12. n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation. | |
There were big tears rolling down Lisa's cheeks. | |
Ryan wiped the tear from the paper he was crying on. | |
13. n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins. | |
14. n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass. | |
15. n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To produce tears. | |
Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind. | |