| archaic |
| 1. n. (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the W | |
| 2. n. (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens. | |
| 3. adj. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated. | |
| 4. adj. (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity. | |
| 5. adj. (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period | |
| intransitive |
| 1. adj. (grammar, of a verb) not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object | |
| The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often.". | |
| 2. adj. (rare) not transitive or passing further; kept; detained | |
| And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. — Jeremy Taylor. | |
| 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 | |
| flow |
| 1. n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts | |
| 2. n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid. | |
| 3. n. (math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set. | |
| The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations. | |
| 4. n. The rising movement of the tide. | |
| 5. n. Smoothness or continuity. | |
| The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow. | |
| 6. n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement. | |
| Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow. | |
| Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice. | |
| 7. n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task. | |
| 8. n. The emission of blood during menstruation. | |
| Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow. | |
| 9. n. (Scotland) A morass or marsh. | |
| 10. n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat. | |
| The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another. | |
| Rivers flow from springs and lakes. | |
| Tears flow from the eyes. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth. | |
| Wealth flows from industry and economy. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. | |
| The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over. | |
| 15. v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave. | |
| a flowing mantle; flowing locks | |
| 16. v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb. | |
| The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow. | |
| 18. v. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood. | |
| 19. v. To cover with varnish. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus. | |
