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. | |
soiled |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of soil | |
2. adj. dirty | |
soil |
1. n. A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth. | |
2. n. The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants. | |
3. n. The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature | |
4. n. Country or territory. | |
The refugees returned to their native soil. | |
Kenyan soil | |
5. n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain. | |
6. n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer. | |
7. n. Dung; compost; manure. | |
night soil | |
8. v. To make dirty. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled. | |
Light colours soil sooner than dark ones. | |
10. v. (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully. | |
11. v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed. | |
12. v. To make invalid, to ruin. | |
13. v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure. | |
14. n. (euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes. | |
15. n. (medicine) A bag containing soiled items. | |
16. n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted. | |
17. v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to | |
to soil a horse | |
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. | |
tarnished |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of tarnish | |
2. adj. Discolored or blemished. | |
3. adj. (figurative, by extension, of one's reputation, name or word) Sullied or dishonored. | |
tarnish |
1. n. Oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To oxidize or discolor due to oxidation. | |
Careful storage of silver will prevent it from tarnishing. | |
3. v. To soil, sully, damage or compromise | |
He is afraid that he will tarnish his reputation if he disagrees. | |
4. v. (intransitive, figurative) To lose its lustre or attraction; to become dull. | |