| 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 | |
| become |
| 1. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place). | |
| 2. v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise. | |
| What became of him after he was let go? | |
| It hath becomen so that many a man had to sterve. | |
| 3. v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into. | |
| She became a doctor when she was 25. | |
| The weather will become cold after the sun goes down. | |
| 4. v. To be proper for; to beseem. | |
| 5. v. Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone). | |
| That dress really becomes you. | |
| Red |
| 1. n. A Communist. | |
| 2. n. A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit. | |
| 3. adj. Communist | |
| the Red Army | |
| 4. adj. Having red as its color. | |
| The girl wore a red skirt. | |
| 5. adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. | |
| Her hair had red highlights. | |
| 6. adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black | |
| I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens. | |
| 7. adj. (often, capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: | |
| 8. adj. (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party | |
| a red state | |
| a red Congress | |
| 9. adj. (also British) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germ | |
| the red-black grand coalition in Germany | |
| 10. adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations | |
| 11. adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation. | |
| 12. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red. | |
| 13. n. Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from | |
| (color panel, F00000) | |
| 14. n. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. | |
| 15. n. (snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. | |
| 16. n. Red wine. | |
| 17. n. (informal, birdwatching) A redshank. | |
| 18. n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind. | |
| 19. n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug. | |
| 20. n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal) | |
| 21. n. (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) red lemonade | |
| 22. n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks. | |
| 23. n. (US, colloquial) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red") | |
| 24. v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede | |
| 25. v. alternative spelling of redd | |
