ambitransitive |
1. adj. (of a verb) able to be used transitively or intransitively without requiring morphological change | |
2. n. (grammar) an ambitransitive verb | |
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 | |
eat |
1. v. To ingest; to be ingested. | |
2. v. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it. | |
He’s eating an apple. / Don’t disturb me now; can't you see that I’m eating? | |
3. v. (intransitive) To consume a meal. | |
What time do we eat this evening? | |
4. v. (intransitive, ergative) To be eaten. | |
It's a soup that eats like a meal. | |
5. v. To use up. | |
6. v. To destroy, consume, or use up. | |
This project is eating up all the money. | |
7. v. (transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object. | |
The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out. | |
John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report. | |
8. v. (transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) To consume money or (other instruents of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted b | |
The video game in the corner just ate my quarter. | |
9. v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry. | |
What’s eating you? | |
10. v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction. | |
11. v. To corrode or erode. | |
The acid rain ate away the statue. The strong acid eats through the metal. | |
12. v. (transitive, informal) To perform oral sex. | |
13. v. (transitive, informal) To perform oral sex on someone. | |
Eat me! | |
14. v. (transitive, informal) To perform oral sex on a body part. | |
I ate his ass. | |
Yeah, eat that dick. | |
15. n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item. | |
with |
1. prep. Against. | |
He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
He went with his friends. | |
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
5. prep. In support of. | |
We are with you all the way. | |
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
slain with robbers | |
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
cut with a knife | |
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
9. prep. Having, owning. | |
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
Do you want to come with? | |
11. adv. --> | |
12. n. alternative form of withe | |
small |
1. adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. | |
A small serving of ice cream. | |
A small group. | |
He made us all feel small. | |
2. adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child. | |
Remember when the children were small? | |
3. adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters. | |
4. adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean. | |
5. adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short. | |
a small space of time | |
6. adj. topics, en, Size | |
7. adv. In a small fashion. | |
8. adv. In or into small pieces. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) To a small extent. | |
10. n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. | |
11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle. | |
quick |
1. adj. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast. | |
I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough. | |
He's a quick runner. | |
2. adj. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly. | |
That was a quick meal. | |
3. adj. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent. | |
You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics. | |
4. adj. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive. | |
My father is old but he still has a quick wit. | |
5. adj. Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered. | |
6. adj. (archaic) Alive, living. | |
7. adj. (archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling. | |
8. adj. Of water: flowing. | |
9. adj. Burning, flammable, fiery. | |
10. adj. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. | |
11. adj. (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren | |
12. adv. quickly | |
13. adv. (colloquial) with speed | |
Get rich quick. | |
Come here, quick! | |
14. n. raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails. | |
15. n. plants used in making a quickset hedge | |
16. n. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling. | |
17. n. quitchgrass | |
18. n. (cricket) A fast bowler. | |
19. v. To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid. | |
20. v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken. | |
bites |
1. n. plural of bite | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of bite | |
bite |
1. v. To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth. | |
As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is. | |
2. v. To hold something by clamping one's teeth. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth. | |
That dog is about to bite! | |
4. v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances. | |
If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with. | |
I needed snow chains to make the tires bite. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative. | |
For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite. | |
7. v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught. | |
Are the fish biting today? | |
8. v. (intransitive, metaphor) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor. | |
I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite? | |
9. v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting. | |
These mosquitoes are really biting today! | |
10. v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent. | |
It bites like pepper or mustard. | |
11. v. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense. | |
Pepper bites the mouth. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold. | |
The anchor bites. | |
14. v. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. | |
The anchor bites the ground. | |
15. v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck. | |
This music really bites. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective. | |
You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me. | |
17. v. (intransitive, AAVE, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate. | |
He always be biting my moves. | |
18. n. The act of biting. | |
19. n. The wound left behind after having been bitten. | |
That snake bite really hurts! | |
20. n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. | |
After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites. | |
21. n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful. | |
There were only a few bites left on the plate. | |
22. n. (slang) Something unpleasant. | |
That's really a bite! | |
23. n. (slang) An act of plagiarism. | |
That song is a bite of my song! | |
24. n. A small meal or snack. | |
I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner. | |
25. n. (figuratively) aggression | |
26. n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another. | |
27. n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud. | |
28. n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats. | |
29. n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper. | |